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Re: RELEASE BLOCKER: Linux doesn't follow x86/x86-64 ABI wrt direction flag

"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:

> Not quite, but fixing it in the kernel is easy.
>
> Still breaks for running on all old kernels.

Many more things break on old kernels. I guess it's not worse than
a (local) root exploit, is it?

*-stable and distributions should take care of it, as they do in
others cases.
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa
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