x86/asm/32: Make pt_regs's segment registers be 16 bits

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Many 32-bit x86 CPUs do 16-bit writes when storing segment registers to
memory.  This can cause the high word of regs->[cdefgs]s to
occasionally contain garbage.

Rather than making the entry code more complicated to fix up the
garbage, just change pt_regs to reflect reality.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bpetkov@suse.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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Andy Lutomirski 2017-07-28 06:00:30 -07:00 • committed by Ingo Molnar

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arch/x86/include/asm/ptrace.h

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