linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/5] i387: stable kernel backport

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Date:	Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:29:11 -0800
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	stable@...r.kernel.org, Raphael Prevost <raphael@...o.asia>,
	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>,
	Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] i387: stable kernel backport

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@...uxfoundation.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.

                    Linus
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