Re: SSE related security hole

Doug Ledford
2002-04-18T19:32:47Z

On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 09:20:03PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> It introduces security hole: Unrelated tasks now have your top secret
> value you stored in one of your registers.

Well, that's been my point all along and why I sent the patch. I was not
asking why leaving the registers alone instead of 0ing them out was not a
security hole. I was asking why doing so was not backward compatible?

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