From: Prasanna S Panchamukhi This patch fixes the problem reported by Stas Sergeev, that kprobes steals the virtual-8086 exceptions. This fix modifies kprobe_handler() to return 0 when in virtual-8086 mode. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- 25-akpm/arch/i386/kernel/kprobes.c | 5 +++++ 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+) diff -puN arch/i386/kernel/kprobes.c~kprobes-vm86-interrupt-miss arch/i386/kernel/kprobes.c --- 25/arch/i386/kernel/kprobes.c~kprobes-vm86-interrupt-miss Wed Nov 17 13:48:57 2004 +++ 25-akpm/arch/i386/kernel/kprobes.c Wed Nov 17 13:49:52 2004 @@ -117,6 +117,11 @@ static inline int kprobe_handler(struct p = get_kprobe(addr); if (!p) { unlock_kprobes(); + if (regs->eflags & VM_MASK) { + /* We are in virtual-8086 mode. Return 0 */ + goto no_kprobe; + } + if (*addr != BREAKPOINT_INSTRUCTION) { /* * The breakpoint instruction was removed right _