From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andy Lutomirski Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 2/4] x86/ldt: Make modify_ldt synchronous Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 20:15:44 -0700 Message-ID: References: <4c6978476782160600471bd865b318db34c7b628.1438291540.git.luto@kernel.org> <55BAAA46.20802@citrix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <55BAAA46.20802@citrix.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Andrew Cooper Cc: "security@kernel.org" , Jan Beulich , Peter Zijlstra , X86 ML , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Steven Rostedt , xen-devel , Borislav Petkov , stable , Andy Lutomirski , Sasha Levin , Boris Ostrovsky List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 3:50 PM, Andrew Cooper wrote: > On 30/07/2015 22:31, Andy Lutomirski wrote: >> Note to -stable maintainers: by itself, this patch makes a >> pre-existing Xen bug much easier to trigger; on a 32-bit Xen guest, >> the new ldt_gdt selftest is likely to OOPS. Even without this >> patch, the test can OOPS, but it's much less likely to happen. The >> Xen maintainers should have a fix for that issue shortly. > > All Xen issues should be fixed by patch 1 now. > Whoops, right. That paragraph in the changelog can be deleted. > ~Andrew -- Andy Lutomirski AMA Capital Management, LLC