From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH,TRIVIAL] Fix csum_ipv6_magic asm memory clobber
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:45:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AC3DF7B.5060407@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090930154044.0c7ace16.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On 09/30/2009 03:40 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> You describe it as "trivial" and also cc stable@kernel.org. These things
> are contradictory!
>
> Maybe backporting it is a good idea from a sleep-soundly-at-night POV.
> I don't know..
>
/me suspects it was supposed to mean "trivially correct", which isn't
really what "trivial" means. This is a potentially serious bug and
should be treated as such.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-30 22:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-26 19:27 [PATCH,TRIVIAL] Fix csum_ipv6_magic asm memory clobber Samuel Thibault
2009-09-30 22:40 ` Andrew Morton
2009-09-30 22:45 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2009-09-30 23:01 ` Samuel Thibault
2009-09-30 23:19 ` Andrew Morton
2009-09-30 23:22 ` David Miller
2009-09-30 23:45 ` H. Peter Anvin
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