From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751058AbWD3InW (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Apr 2006 04:43:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751059AbWD3InV (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Apr 2006 04:43:21 -0400 Received: from mail.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:33685 "EHLO mx1.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751047AbWD3InV (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Apr 2006 04:43:21 -0400 From: Andi Kleen To: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.17-rc3] i386: fix broken FP exception handling Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 10:42:59 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Cc: linux-kernel , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , linux-stable References: <200604291409_MC3-1-BE50-16AD@compuserve.com> In-Reply-To: <200604291409_MC3-1-BE50-16AD@compuserve.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200604301042.59884.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Saturday 29 April 2006 20:07, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > The FXSAVE information leak patch introduced a bug in FP exception > handling: it clears FP exceptions only when there are already > none outstanding. Mikael Pettersson reported that causes problems > with the Erlang runtime and has tested this fix. Patch looks correct, thanks. All other cases (x86-64, 2.4) should be already ok. -Andi