Re: [PATCH] [2.5 i386] Fix AP GDT descs to have limit = size - 1

[Ingo Molnar]

On 7 Aug 2002, Luca Barbieri wrote:

>  		memcpy(cpu_gdt_table[cpu], cpu_gdt_table[0], GDT_SIZE);
> -		cpu_gdt_descr[cpu].size = GDT_SIZE;
> +		cpu_gdt_descr[cpu].size = GDT_SIZE - 1;
>  		cpu_gdt_descr[cpu].address = (unsigned long)cpu_gdt_table[cpu];

indeed, good eyes!

i'm wondering whether this could have caused any problems - since the
limit was not a proper multiple of 8 minus 1, no selector value could have
caused a descriptor to be loaded from the invalid byte.

	Ingo