* Zachary Amsden (zach@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > I think so too. I merely moved the code here and didn't notice it in > all this excitement. > > 0x00cf9a000xff306600 => > > Present CPL-0 32-bit code segment, base 0x0000ff30, limit 0xf6601 pages, > for which desc_empty(desc) is true. > > Thankfully, this is not used as a security check, but it can falsely > overwrite TLS segments with carefully chosen base / limits. I do not > believe this is an issue in practice, but it is a kernel bug. > > Nice catch. Looks like it affects all 2.6.X kernels. Thanks, I added this to virt tree, and will push baseline fix up. thanks, -chris
