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Message-ID: <4AC3DF7B.5060407@zytor.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:45:15 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH,TRIVIAL] Fix csum_ipv6_magic asm memory clobber
On 09/30/2009 03:40 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> You describe it as "trivial" and also cc stable@...nel.org. These things
> are contradictory!
>
> Maybe backporting it is a good idea from a sleep-soundly-at-night POV.
> I don't know..
>
/me suspects it was supposed to mean "trivially correct", which isn't
really what "trivial" means. This is a potentially serious bug and
should be treated as such.
-hpa
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