VMI fix for stack protector

[Alok Kataria]

With CONFIG_STACK_PROTECTOR turned on, VMI doesn't boot with more than one
processor. The problem is with the gs value not being initialized correctly
when registering the secondary processor for VMI's case. 

The patch below initializes the gs value for the AP to __KERNEL_STACK_CANARY.
Without this the secondary processor keeps on taking a GP on every gs access.

Needs to go in for 2.6.30.x too, since STACK_PROTECTOR for 32bit was
introduced in 2.6.30.

Patch on top of 2.6.31-rc5.

Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx

Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/vmi_32.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/kernel/vmi_32.c	2009-08-03 13:55:41.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/vmi_32.c	2009-08-04 14:13:22.000000000 -0700
@@ -442,7 +442,7 @@ vmi_startup_ipi_hook(int phys_apicid, un
 	ap.ds = __USER_DS;
 	ap.es = __USER_DS;
 	ap.fs = __KERNEL_PERCPU;
-	ap.gs = 0;
+	ap.gs = __KERNEL_STACK_CANARY;
 
 	ap.eflags = 0;
 


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