Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Oct 2009 01:01:38 +0200 | From | Samuel Thibault <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH,TRIVIAL] Fix csum_ipv6_magic asm memory clobber |
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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).
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