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From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To:     "Chang S. Bae" <chang.seok.bae@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/7] x86/fsgsbase/64: Make ptrace read FS/GS base
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On Wed, 20 Jun 2018, Chang S. Bae wrote:

> From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
> 
> ptrace can read FS/GS base using the register access API
> (PTRACE_PEEKUSER, etc) or PTRACE_ARCH_PRCTL.  Make both of these
> mechanisms return the actual FS/GS base.

That's the 'BUG' fix, right? Ok, not something which needs to be urgently
backported it seems. It's surely a correctness issue, which improved
debugability, but surely not something crucial.

So the right ordering of the patches is:

   1) Introduce task_seg_base() as a standalong patch w/o using it.

   2) Add the new fsgs helpers and use task_seg_base() right away instead
      of adding this misleading 'preserve bug' comment just to remove it
      one patch later.

   .....

Thanks,

	tglx