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authorAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>2020-06-26 10:24:27 -0700
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2020-07-01 15:27:20 +0200
commit979c2c4247cafd8a91628a7306b6871efbd12fdb (patch)
tree305b85075219ea526e6eb80cbe0c2537ad0f42b3
parentselftests/x86: Add a syscall_arg_fault_64 test for negative GSBASE (diff)
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selftests/x86/fsgsbase: Fix a comment in the ptrace_write_gsbase test
A comment was unclear. Fix it. Fixes: 5e7ec8578fa3 ("selftests/x86/fsgsbase: Test ptracer-induced GS base write with FSGSBASE") Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/901034a91a40169ec84f1f699ea86704dff762e4.1593192140.git.luto@kernel.org
-rw-r--r--tools/testing/selftests/x86/fsgsbase.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/x86/fsgsbase.c b/tools/testing/selftests/x86/fsgsbase.c
index 9a4349813a30..f47495d2f070 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/x86/fsgsbase.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/x86/fsgsbase.c
@@ -498,7 +498,8 @@ static void test_ptrace_write_gsbase(void)
* base would zero the selector. On newer kernels,
* this behavior has changed -- poking the base
* changes only the base and, if FSGSBASE is not
- * available, this may not effect.
+ * available, this may have no effect once the tracee
+ * is resumed.
*/
if (gs == 0)
printf("\tNote: this is expected behavior on older kernels.\n");