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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>,
	Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	ak@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jh@suse.cz
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: SSE related security hole
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 11:13:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020426091341.GA497@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020424023249.B2756@dualathlon.random> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0204231909250.10866-100000@home.transmeta.com>

Hi!

> >	  Basically they should only deal with the
> > other operative systems now.
> 
> Yeah. And since the security hole is fairly small and insignificant in
> comparison to some others, I suspect that the main "other operating
> system" just won't care one way or the other.

*If* the other system uses fpu unit for memcpy, well, it may get
pretty big and significant.
									Pavel
-- 
(about SSSCA) "I don't say this lightly.  However, I really think that the U.S.
no longer is classifiable as a democracy, but rather as a plutocracy." --hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2002-04-26 11:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20020418183639.20946.qmail@science.horizon.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found] ` <a9ncgs$2s2$1@cesium.transmeta.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2002-04-19 14:06   ` SSE related security hole Andi Kleen
2002-04-19 18:00     ` Doug Ledford
2002-04-19 21:04       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-04-19 21:35         ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-04-19 21:42           ` Andi Kleen
2002-04-20  3:23             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-04-19 23:12           ` [PATCH] " Brian Gerst
2002-04-19 23:41             ` Linus Torvalds
2002-04-20  0:01               ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-04-20  0:09                 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-04-20  0:11                   ` Brian Gerst
2002-04-20  0:19                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-04-20  0:29                     ` Linus Torvalds
2002-04-20  0:31                   ` Alan Cox
2002-04-20  0:08               ` Brian Gerst
2002-04-20  0:21                 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-04-20  4:21                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-04-20  4:35                   ` Linus Torvalds
2002-04-20  5:07                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-04-20 16:27                       ` Linus Torvalds
2002-04-20 17:27                         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-04-20 17:38                           ` Linus Torvalds
2002-04-20 18:12                             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-04-20 19:30                               ` Linus Torvalds
2002-04-20 19:41                                 ` Andi Kleen
2002-04-20 21:28                                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-04-20 22:43                                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-04-21  2:09                                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-04-20 23:23                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2002-04-21  2:08                                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-04-20 23:13                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2002-04-23 19:21                               ` Linus Torvalds
2002-04-23 20:05                                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-04-24  0:32                                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-04-24  2:10                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2002-04-26  9:13                                     ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2002-04-26 11:55                                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-04-19 22:18         ` Jan Hubicka

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