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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Unbalanced stack usage in arch/i386/math-emu/wm_sqrt.S
Date: 13 Aug 2007 17:39:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <p73odhbiguz.fsf@bingen.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <11592.1186988776@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com>

Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au> writes:

> Originally sent to the maintainer of the i386 math-emu code
> (billm@suburbia.net) but that mail was bounced[1].  Is anybody
> maintaining the math-emu code and do we even care about it anymore?

I can take a patch, but I would prefer if it was tested
e.g. by force disabling the FPU and then running a program
to trigger that exception. If there is no test it
might be safer to keep the bug around than to run
untested code.

-Andi

      reply	other threads:[~2007-08-13 16:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-13  7:06 Unbalanced stack usage in arch/i386/math-emu/wm_sqrt.S Keith Owens
2007-08-13 15:39 ` Andi Kleen [this message]

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