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| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/mm/extable.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/extable.c b/arch/x86/mm/extable.c index 79ae939970d3..fcd06f7526de 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/extable.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/extable.c @@ -135,7 +135,12 @@ void __init early_fixup_exception(struct pt_regs *regs, int trapnr) if (early_recursion_flag > 2) goto halt_loop; - if (regs->cs != __KERNEL_CS) + /* + * Old CPUs leave the high bits of CS on the stack + * undefined. I'm not sure which CPUs do this, but at least + * the 486 DX works this way. + */ + if ((regs->cs & 0xFFFF) != __KERNEL_CS) goto fail; /* |