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x86: fix HYPERVISOR_update_descriptor()

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Impact: fix potential oops during app-initiated LDT manipulation

The underlying hypercall has differing argument requirements on 32-
and 64-bit.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
LKML-Reference: <49B9061E.76E4.0078.0@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Jan Beulich 2009-03-12 11:54:54 +00:00 committed by Ingo Molnar
parent afcfe024ae
commit 6a5c05f002
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arch/x86/include/asm/xen/hypercall.h
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@ -296,6 +296,8 @@ HYPERVISOR_get_debugreg(int reg)
static inline int
HYPERVISOR_update_descriptor(u64 ma, u64 desc)
{
if (sizeof(u64) == sizeof(long))
return _hypercall2(int, update_descriptor, ma, desc);
return _hypercall4(int, update_descriptor, ma, ma>>32, desc, desc>>32);
}