Re: [PATCH] Re: SSE related security hole

Linus Torvalds
2002-04-20T00:21:50Z

On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Brian Gerst wrote:
>
> I don't know about Intel, but the Athlon doesn't appear to save anything
> in the "reserved" areas.

Yes, I think it will work with current CPU's, I'm just worried about
future state extensions.

That said, I personally certainly prefer this approach which is guaranteed
to set as much as possible to a known state, even in the presense of
future extensions. If future extensions don't like loading zeroes, at
least the state will be _consistent_, which on the whole is really the
most important thing.

Applied.

Linus