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From: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: SSE related security hole
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On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 09:20:03PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> 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?

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