[patch] restrict amd64_set_{f,g}sbase() to values inside user VA
David Xu
davidxu at freebsd.org
Sat Jul 9 14:26:41 GMT 2005
I had already post similar patch some days ago to re@
David Xu
Joseph Koshy wrote:
>Does anyone have objections to the following patch?
>
>It restricts the values that can be loaded into the FS.base and
>GS.base MSRs for user processes to those inside of user VA
>(0..(1<<47) today).
>
>These values are used as the base addresses for FS- and GS-
>relative addressing, when a FS: or GS: segment override
>is specified in an instruction.
>
>
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