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

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Message-ID: <m33ar4bo01.fsf@maximus.localdomain>
Date:	Thu, 06 Mar 2008 03:11:10 +0100
From:	Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Chris Lattner <clattner@...le.com>,
	Richard Guenther <richard.guenther@...il.com>,
	Joe Buck <Joe.Buck@...opsys.com>, Michael Matz <matz@...e.de>,
	Jan Hubicka <hubicka@....cz>,
	Aurelien Jarno <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

"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> writes:

> Not quite, but fixing it in the kernel is easy.
>
> Still breaks for running on all old kernels.

Many more things break on old kernels. I guess it's not worse than
a (local) root exploit, is it?

*-stable and distributions should take care of it, as they do in
others cases.
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa
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