Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755720AbaDLTfy (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Apr 2014 15:35:54 -0400 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([78.46.96.112]:60506 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754645AbaDLTfw (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Apr 2014 15:35:52 -0400 Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 21:35:41 +0200 From: Borislav Petkov To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Brian Gerst , Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Thomas Gleixner , stable , "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86-64, modify_ldt: Ban 16-bit segments on 64-bit kernels Message-ID: <20140412193541.GA30697@pd.tnic> References: <6f5f98f2-aa96-433f-9ee8-5ba216624957@email.android.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6f5f98f2-aa96-433f-9ee8-5ba216624957@email.android.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 10:18:25AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > So Wine regressed and noone noticed? They doesn't sound like an active > user base. Btw, wouldn't this obscure use case simply work in a KVM guest with a kernel <= 3.14? Because if so, we simply cut it at 3.14, everything newer has the leak fix and people who still want to play phone games on a x86 machine, can do so in a guest with an older kernel. Everybody's happy. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine. -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/