On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 05:11:20PM +0200, Peter 'p2' De Schrijver wrote: > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/205839 has the patch. Note > that 486 stepping A processors have a wrong opcode for cmpxchg. This > means emulation of cmpxchg is necessary for 486 stepping A as well. As > to the security hole, either the patch needs some fixes (ie using get_user etc.) > or a userland emulation hooking SIGILL needs to be implemented. Yes, I think everyone involved is aware of that. Are you volunteering to implement this? -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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