On Mon 2019-04-15 20:58:21, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > [ Upstream commit 090edbe23ff57940fca7f57d9165ce57a826bd7a ] > > x86_64's saved_context nonsensically used separate idt_limit and > idt_base fields and then cast &idt_limit to struct desc_ptr *. > > This was correct (with -fno-strict-aliasing), but it's confusing, > served no purpose, and required #ifdeffery. Simplify this by > using struct desc_ptr directly. > > No change in functionality. While this is nice cleanup, I don't think it fixes real bug. I don't think it is suitable for stable. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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