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Commit 246f2d2e authored by H. Peter Anvin's avatar H. Peter Anvin
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x86-32, espfix: Remove filter for espfix32 due to race



It is not safe to use LAR to filter when to go down the espfix path,
because the LDT is per-process (rather than per-thread) and another
thread might change the descriptors behind our back.  Fortunately it
is always *safe* (if a bit slow) to go down the espfix path, and a
32-bit LDT stack segment is extremely rare.

Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1398816946-3351-1-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # consider after upstream merge
parent 3891a04a
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