FreeBSD-SA-06:14.fpu
David Xu
davidxu at freebsd.org
Sun Apr 30 08:59:50 UTC 2006
Igor Sysoev wrote:
>
> The last security advisory FreeBSD-SA-06:14.fpu
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:14.fpu.asc
> that fixes very doubtful security bug in AMD CPUs, also
> adds unnecessary penalty in FPU context switch for all other
> SSE-enabled CPUs.
>
>
> Igor Sysoev
> http://sysoev.ru/en/
Probably it should only be applied to AMD CPU but not Intel and others,
it is easy to check cpu vendor and put a
if (bug_fxsave)
fpu_clean_state();
in file npx.c.
David Xu
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