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Re: [Xen-devel] hvmemul_virtual_to_linear() doesn't care about direction

To: "Byrne, John (HP Labs)" <john.l.byrne@xxxxxx>, "xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] hvmemul_virtual_to_linear() doesn't care about direction-flag?
From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:20:01 +0100
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Quite a nasty omission though, and quite easily fixed. Thanks for pointing
it out.

 -- Keir

On 18/8/08 19:41, "Byrne, John (HP Labs)" <john.l.byrne@xxxxxx> wrote:

> I was following the emulation code around in xen-unstable cs 18335 and I
> noticed that the direction flag doesn't get taken into account for the segment
> bounds checking in the 32-bit case anywhere I could see. Does anyone know
> better?
> 
> Maybe no one will care, but I thought I'd mention it.
> 
> John Byrne
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