* Zachary Amsden wrote:

> This one took a long time to rear up because LDT usage is not very
> common, but the bug is quite serious. It got introduced along with
> another bug, already fixed, by 75b8bb3e56ca09a467fbbe5229bc68627f7445be
>
> Please apply. Fix should also be headed for stable tree and backported,
> it is really sadly trivial. Glauber, Ingo, sorry for the offlist
> posting, somehow the original missed LKML.

> - vmi_ops.write_idt_entry(dt, entry, ldt_entry[0], ldt_entry[1]);
> + vmi_ops.write_ldt_entry(dt, entry, ldt_entry[0], ldt_entry[1]);

oops. Applied to tip/x86/urgent, thanks Zachary!

Ingo
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On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> - vmi_ops.write_idt_entry(dt, entry, ldt_entry[0], ldt_entry[1]);
>> + vmi_ops.write_ldt_entry(dt, entry, ldt_entry[0], ldt_entry[1]);

For a few seconds I thought it was diff going mad diff'ing exactly
similar lines.

This one could actually use some capitalization to reduce the
possibility of similar problems in future - rename to write_IDT_entry
and write_LDT_entry perhaps?

Parag
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