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Patch "x86/ldt: Further fix FPU emulation" has been added to the 4.1-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

x86/ldt: Further fix FPU emulation

to the 4.1-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
x86-ldt-further-fix-fpu-emulation.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.1 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

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From 12e244f4b550498bbaf654a52f93633f7dde2dc7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 15:02:55 -0700
Subject: x86/ldt: Further fix FPU emulation

From: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>

commit 12e244f4b550498bbaf654a52f93633f7dde2dc7 upstream.

The previous fix confused a selector with a segment prefix. Fix it.

Compile-tested only.

Cc Juergen Gross <[email protected]>
Fixes 4809146b86c3 ("x86/ldt: Correct FPU emulation access to LDT")
---
 arch/x86/math-emu/get_address.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
arch/x86/math-emu/get_address.c +1 -1
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ static long pm_address(u_char FPU_modrm,
 		addr->selector = PM_REG_(segment);
 	}
 
-	descriptor = FPU_get_ldt_descriptor(segment);
+	descriptor = FPU_get_ldt_descriptor(addr->selector);
 	base_address = SEG_BASE_ADDR(descriptor);
 	address = base_address + offset;
 	limit = base_address

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.1/x86-ldt-correct-ldt-access-in-single-stepping-logic.patch queue-4.1/x86-ldt-correct-fpu-emulation-access-to-ldt.patch queue-4.1/x86-ldt-make-modify_ldt-synchronous.patch queue-4.1/x86-ldt-further-fix-fpu-emulation.patch