Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 21 Apr 2002 21:54:07 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: SSE related security hole |
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Hi!
> > It introduces security hole: Unrelated tasks now have your top secret > > value you stored in one of your registers. > > Well, that's been my point all along and why I sent the patch. I was not > asking why leaving the registers alone instead of 0ing them out was not a > security hole. I was asking why doing so was not backward compatible?
Introducing security hole counts as "poor backcompatibility" to me. Pavel -- (about SSSCA) "I don't say this lightly. However, I really think that the U.S. no longer is classifiable as a democracy, but rather as a plutocracy." --hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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