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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Re: SSE related security hole


On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
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> 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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