[PATCH] x86_64: Fix canonical checking for segment registers in ptrace
Allowed user programs to set a non canonical segment base, which would cause oopses in the kernel later. Credit-to: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@dsv.su.se> For identifying and reporting this bug. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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