linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] KVM: SVM: ignore type when setting segment registers

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Date:   Wed, 31 May 2017 08:42:08 +0200
From:   Gi-Oh Kim <gi-oh.kim@...fitbricks.com>
To:     Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>,
        Gioh Kim <gi-oh.kim@...fitbricks.com>, andre.przywara@....com,
        kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] KVM: SVM: ignore type when setting segment registers

On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 8:03 PM, Matt Mullins <mmullins@...x.us> wrote:
> On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 02:54:21PM +0200, Radim Krčmář wrote:
>> 2017-05-29 15:24+0200, Gioh Kim:
>> > If so, why type is checked when setting segment registers?
>>
>> No idea.  19bca6ab75d8 ("KVM: SVM: Fix cross vendor migration issue with
>> unusable bit") also moved the assigment up to initialize it before use
>> and I think that is enough.
>
> Was this perhaps intended to instead check for a zero selector, which is also
> an unusable segment?

I think that is what present value is for.


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