Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754458AbZI3XBm (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:01:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753764AbZI3XBl (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:01:41 -0400 Received: from solo.fdn.fr ([80.67.169.19]:57540 "EHLO solo.fdn.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752293AbZI3XBl (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:01:41 -0400 Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 01:01:38 +0200 From: Samuel Thibault To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , "David S. Miller" , Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH,TRIVIAL] Fix csum_ipv6_magic asm memory clobber Message-ID: <20090930230138.GZ6451@const.famille.thibault.fr> Mail-Followup-To: Samuel Thibault , "H. Peter Anvin" , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , "David S. Miller" , Andi Kleen References: <20090926192748.GX7681@const.famille.thibault.fr> <20090930154044.0c7ace16.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4AC3DF7B.5060407@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <4AC3DF7B.5060407@zytor.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 847 Lines: 27 H. Peter Anvin, le Wed 30 Sep 2009 15:45:15 -0700, a ?crit : > On 09/30/2009 03:40 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: > > You describe it as "trivial" and also cc stable@kernel.org. These things > > are contradictory! > > > > Maybe backporting it is a good idea from a sleep-soundly-at-night POV. > > I don't know.. > > /me suspects it was supposed to mean "trivially correct", Yes. > which isn't really what "trivial" means. Ah. > This is a potentially serious bug and should be treated as such. Yes. Actually it hit Hurd's pfinetv4 when we tried to compile it with gcc-4.3 (bogus checksums). Samuel -- 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/