Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756601Ab2BWWt0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:49:26 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:57942 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753191Ab2BWWtY (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:49:24 -0500 Message-ID: <4F46C253.106@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:48:51 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.1) Gecko/20120209 Thunderbird/10.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Willy Tarreau , Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Raphael Prevost , Suresh Siddha , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] i387: stable kernel backport References: <20120222211928.GA4448@kroah.com> <20120222213253.GA25150@kroah.com> <20120223200905.GA5475@kroah.com> <4F46A1C4.90506@zytor.com> <20120223204832.GA30322@kroah.com> <4F46A6EC.8050804@zytor.com> <20120223211016.GA16275@kroah.com> <20120223215242.GA1306@1wt.eu> <20120223222733.GB1306@1wt.eu> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 772 Lines: 24 On 02/23/2012 02:38 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > You'd still need an x86-32 machine to test on, because x86-64 was > immune to this issue. > > But yeah, the impact of this seems to be small enough that for older > kernels (which are likely used on older systems for maintenance > anyway) disabling AES-NI on x86-32 really might be the way to go. > That would really suck for users of encrypted hard disks. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- 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/