This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86/LDT: Print the real LDT base address
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
x86-ldt-print-the-real-ldt-base-address.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 0d430e3fb3f7cdc13c0d22078b820f682821b45a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 08:42:44 -0700
Subject: x86/LDT: Print the real LDT base address
From: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>
commit 0d430e3fb3f7cdc13c0d22078b820f682821b45a upstream.
This was meant to print base address and entry count; make it do so
again.
Fixes: 37868fe113ff "x86/ldt: Make modify_ldt synchronous"
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/56797D8402000078000C24F0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ void release_thread(struct task_struct *
if (dead_task->mm->context.ldt) {
pr_warn("WARNING: dead process %s still has LDT? <%p/%d>\n",
dead_task->comm,
- dead_task->mm->context.ldt,
+ dead_task->mm->context.ldt->entries,
dead_task->mm->context.ldt->size);
BUG();
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from JBeulich@xxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/x86-ldt-print-the-real-ldt-base-address.patch
