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

[Richard Guenther]

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 10:43 PM, Joe Buck <Joe.Buck@synopsys.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 01:34:14PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>  > Richard Guenther wrote:
>  > >
>  > >We didn't yet run into this issue and build openSUSE with 4.3 since more
>  > >than
>  > >three month.
>  > >
>  >
>  > Well, how often do you take a trap inside an overlapping memmove()?
>
>  Also, would it be possible to produce an exploit?  If you can get string
>  instructions to work "the wrong way", you might be able to overwrite data.
>
>  "We haven't seen a problem" isn't the right answer.  Can someone
>  deliberately *create* a problem?
>
>  And if we aren't sure, we should err on the side of safety.

Oh, you mean releasing a kernel security update? ;)  What does ICC or
other compilers do?

Richard.