Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 19 Apr 2002 17:29:21 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Re: SSE related security hole |
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On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > Remember that one of the original design goals of MMX was to run on > unmodified operating systems (and it can't be turned off); thus needing > any extra initialization is a bug.
Oh, I agree 100%. The sanest thing would certainly have been to make sure "fninit" just clears everything inclusing MMX and full XMM state. Oh, well.
Linus
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