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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] Re: SSE related security hole
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    > I get this feeling that Intel screwed up on specifying how to
    > initialize this whole state.
    >

    Indeed. Logically, FNINIT should have been extended to initialize it all -
    - it is a security hole that it doesn't initialize MMX properly.
    Alternatively, for SSE only, an INITP instruction could have been added
    that an SSE-enabled OS can use at the time OSXFSR or whatever that flag is
    called is set.



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