From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: "x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>,
"andi@firstfloor.org" <andi@firstfloor.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"stable@kernel.org" <stable@kernel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [patch] x64, fpu: fix possible FPU leakage in error conditions
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:30:51 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0807241330210.15524@nehalem.linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080724202728.GL14380@linux-os.sc.intel.com>
On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Suresh Siddha wrote:
>
> Only the first init_fpu() can fail (memory allocation failure). But here,
> it is def not the first time.
Ahh. Agreed. I missed that. But yes, clear_fpu() is still preferable, I
think.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-24 20:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-24 18:04 [patch] x64, fpu: fix possible FPU leakage in error conditions Suresh Siddha
2008-07-24 18:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-24 18:50 ` Suresh Siddha
2008-07-24 18:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-24 20:27 ` Suresh Siddha
2008-07-24 20:30 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2008-07-24 21:23 ` Suresh Siddha
2008-07-24 21:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-24 22:25 ` Suresh Siddha
2008-07-24 22:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-24 23:02 ` Suresh Siddha
2008-07-24 23:06 ` Suresh Siddha
2008-07-24 23:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-25 1:07 ` Suresh Siddha
2008-07-26 14:37 ` Ingo Molnar
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