Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:32:53 -0800
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, Raphael Prevost <raphael@buro.asia>,
        Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>, Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] i387: stable kernel backport
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On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 01:29:11PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for doing the backport. ?Any ideas on how far back this problem
> > goes?
> 
> The fundamental bug goes back forever, but happily afaik you can only
> *trigger* it by doing FPU accesses from interrupts, and nobody did
> that until the AES-NI instructions came about.
> 
> So practically speaking it goes back to the introduction of
> CRYPTO_AES_NI_INTEL, in commit 54b6a1bd5364 ("crypto: aes-ni - Add
> support to Intel AES-NI instructions for x86_64 platform").
> 
> Which was merged into 2.6.30. So it still goes back pretty far.
> 
> The good news is that I *think* the whole i387 handling code hasn't
> been touched much. But I didn't really check deeply.

Ok, I'll see how far back I can backport it easily, after Peter verifies
that this series works for him on his box.

thanks,

greg k-h
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