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Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 13:35:52 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
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Subject: Re: [stable] [patch 2.6.17-rc3] i386: fix broken FP exception handling
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On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 02:07:49PM -0400, 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.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
> Acked-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
> 
> ---
> 
> The same bug is in 2.6.16.9+ and this patch applies there as well.

Thanks, this got included in 2.6.16.12

greg k-h