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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] x86, CPUID: Correct operator precedence when generating mask
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

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.



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