[4.2.y-ckt stable] Patch "x86/LDT: Print the real LDT base address" has been added to the 4.2.y-ckt tree

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Wed Jan 27 00:13:57 UTC 2016


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    x86/LDT: Print the real LDT base address

to the linux-4.2.y-queue branch of the 4.2.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-4.2.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 4.2.8-ckt3.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 4.2.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 92e2d35eb851f76d3e7ebbb8a9817253f2c24db0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan Beulich <JBeulich at suse.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 08:42:44 -0700
Subject: x86/LDT: Print the real LDT base address

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 at suse.com>
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto at kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/56797D8402000078000C24F0@prv-mh.provo.novell.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
index a90ac95..adff851 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ void release_thread(struct task_struct *dead_task)
 		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();
 		}
--
1.9.1





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