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SubjectRe: [PATCH,TRIVIAL] Fix csum_ipv6_magic asm memory clobber
H. Peter Anvin, le Wed 30 Sep 2009 15:45:15 -0700, a écrit :
> On 09/30/2009 03:40 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > You describe it as "trivial" and also cc stable@kernel.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",

Yes.

> which isn't really what "trivial" means.

Ah.

> This is a potentially serious bug and should be treated as such.

Yes. Actually it hit Hurd's pfinetv4 when we tried to compile it with
gcc-4.3 (bogus checksums).

Samuel
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