From: Bart Oldeman There exists a field io_bitmap_owner in the TSS that is only checked, but never set to anything else but NULL. Signed-off-by: Bart Oldeman Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- arch/i386/kernel/traps.c | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+) diff -puN arch/i386/kernel/traps.c~x86-initialise-tss-io_bitmap_owner-to-something arch/i386/kernel/traps.c --- devel/arch/i386/kernel/traps.c~x86-initialise-tss-io_bitmap_owner-to-something 2005-10-11 00:34:41.000000000 -0700 +++ devel-akpm/arch/i386/kernel/traps.c 2005-10-11 00:34:41.000000000 -0700 @@ -488,6 +488,7 @@ fastcall void __kprobes do_general_prote tss->io_bitmap_max - thread->io_bitmap_max); tss->io_bitmap_max = thread->io_bitmap_max; tss->io_bitmap_base = IO_BITMAP_OFFSET; + tss->io_bitmap_owner = thread; put_cpu(); return; } _