linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 09/20] signal/vm86_32: Replace open coded BUG_ON with an actual BUG

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Date:   Fri, 12 Nov 2021 13:24:37 -0800
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:     Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@...nel.org>,
        H Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/20] signal/vm86_32: Replace open coded BUG_ON with an
 actual BUG_ON

On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 1:23 PM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> But I could see some quick test hack doing it - the IVT at boot is
> actually not at zero, but at fffxxxxx. 8086 is magic.

.. and it's been too long, and I'm too lazy to check - it may be that
vm86 mode doesn't even do that magic boot-time address thing.

It's not like we really care about vm86 mode any more, since pretty
much nobody users it.

                  Linus