To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Chris Lattner <clattner@apple.com>,
       Richard Guenther <richard.guenther@gmail.com>,
       Joe Buck <Joe.Buck@synopsys.com>, Michael Matz <matz@suse.de>,
       Jan Hubicka <hubicka@ucw.cz>, Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: RELEASE BLOCKER: Linux doesn't follow x86/x86-64 ABI wrt direction  flag
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From: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 03:11:10 +0100
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"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:

> Not quite, but fixing it in the kernel is easy.
>
> Still breaks for running on all old kernels.

Many more things break on old kernels. I guess it's not worse than
a (local) root exploit, is it?

*-stable and distributions should take care of it, as they do in
others cases.
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa
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