Re: [PATCH 2/4] x86: ia32entry.S: fix wrong symbolic constant usage: R11->ARGOFFSET

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Sat Jan 10 2015 - 17:46:06 EST


On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 02:41:07PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 2:35 PM, Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Haha, Linus just made you maintainer of entry_64.S :-)
>
> Just going by
>
> git shortlog --no-merges --since=6.months arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S
>
> and looking at the kind of changes are going on, I really think a
> "tag, you're it" to Andy is a reasonable thing to do.
>
> I just hope he's stupid^Wambitious enough to fall for it.

I'm sure he will, he's doing nuts stuff anyway to that file but it seems
to work so far :-)

You should take a look at this other thing too, using SYSRET to return
from exceptions:

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/49394403b8b12486a6b9c9c70b72bd9f5dce7364.1415403984.git.luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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