Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Sep 2010 08:11:43 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86, CPUID: Correct operator precedence when generating mask |
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On 09/20/2010 07:06 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > NEED_<cpufeature> masks used in the CPU feature testing macros are > cutoff at the last 5 bits to prevent overflow since the cpu feature > words are 32-bit-wide bitfields. Fix this for the PSE and PGE masks too. > > This wasn't a real problem since the PSE and PGE bits are nicely < 31. > > Cc: stable@kernel.org > Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Since this is a non-manifest bug there really doesn't seem to be any reason to bother stable with it.
-hpa
-- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
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