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SubjectRe: [patch] checksum P6 asm buffer overflow fix + 686 improvements
On Wed, 26 May 1999, Finn Arne Gangstad wrote:

>The address is aligned to 4 before it is possible to hit that instruction,

%esi is not enforced to be 32bit aligned. You are supposing that nobody
will ever run csum_partial on buffer with an address with the LSB == 1.

Andrea Arcangeli


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