Re: [PATCH 0/2] Fix GDT limit corruption on Intel

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On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 06:32:37PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Intel vmx does not restore GDT.LIMIT; this allows host userspace to look at
> some host kernel bits by loading a segment register and looking whether a
> trap happened or not.
> 
> Fix that by reloading GDT on heavyweight exits.
> 
> Avi Kivity (2):
>   KVM: VMX: Fix host GDT.LIMIT corruption
>   KVM: VMX: Use host_gdt variable wherever we need the host gdt
> 
>  arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c |   19 ++++++++++---------
>  1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

Applied, thanks.

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