Comment 0 for bug 787675

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Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara) wrote :

SRU Justification:

I've clearly buggered up a backported patch on Lucid that came in as an aside for the 2.6.32.26+drm33.11 stable patch set (See bug 681132). The patch in question is:

    KVM: VMX: Fix host userspace gsbase corruption

    We now use load_gs_index() to load gs safely; unfortunately this also
    changes MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE, which we managed separately. This resulted
    in confusion and breakage running 32-bit host userspace on a 64-bit kernel.

The thread regarding the additional patches can be read at:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2010-November/013655.html

The attached patch correctly fixes up the accidental deletion of a line of code. Please apply to Lucid. I'll also build and supply a test kernel for anyone able to test.