linux-kernel - Re: x86: XSAVE flags mystery

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Message-ID: <Y8DZAOY4O5ftbsjP@thinkstation.cmpxchg8b.net>
Date:   Thu, 12 Jan 2023 20:07:28 -0800
From:   Tavis Ormandy <taviso@...il.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: x86: XSAVE flags mystery

On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 09:30:37AM -0800, Tavis Ormandy wrote:
> Hello, I have a mystery and wonder if it might be a kernel bug.
> 

It seems like other people have noticed the same issue:

https://robert.ocallahan.org/2017/06/another-case-of-obscure-cpu.html

I guess it is just an unexplained CPU quirk, not a kernel bug.

Weird.

Thanks,
Tavis.


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