linux-kernel - Re: RELEASE BLOCKER: Linux doesn't follow x86/x86-64 ABI wrt direction flag

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Message-ID: <20080305231238.GA2649@dspnet.fr.eu.org>
Date:	Thu, 6 Mar 2008 00:12:38 +0100
From:	Olivier Galibert <galibert@...ox.com>
To:	Michael Matz <matz@...e.de>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, richard.guenther@...il.com,
	Joe.Buck@...opsys.com, hubicka@....cz, aurelien@...el32.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, gcc@....gnu.org
Subject: Re: RELEASE BLOCKER: Linux doesn't follow x86/x86-64 ABI wrt direction  flag

On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 12:07:39AM +0100, Michael Matz wrote:
> For security problems I prefer fixes over work-arounds.  The fix lies in 
> the kernel, the work-around in gcc.

Incorrect.  The bugs are in the ABI documentation and in gcc, and the
fixes should be done there.  Doing it in the kernel is the workaround.

  OG.

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