[patch] bug fix: tss->io_bitmap_owner is never set to non-NULL.

From: Bart Oldeman
Date: Sat Sep 17 2005 - 05:48:50 EST


Hi,

it appears that there is exists a field io_bitmap_owner in the TSS that is only checked, but never set to anything else but NULL.

The below patch corrects this.

Signed-off-by: Bart Oldeman <bartoldeman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

--- arch/i386/kernel/traps.c.org 2005-09-17 17:20:19.000000000 +1200
+++ arch/i386/kernel/traps.c 2005-09-17 22:33:00.000000000 +1200
@@ -489,6 +489,7 @@ fastcall void __kprobes do_general_prote
tss->io_bitmap_max - thread->io_bitmap_max);
tss->io_bitmap_max = thread->io_bitmap_max;
tss->io_bitmap_base = IO_BITMAP_OFFSET;
+ tss->io_bitmap_owner = thread;
put_cpu();
return;
}
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