Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Oleg Nesterov:
> > o x86: fix ESP corruption CPU bug (take 2)
>
> I don't even absolutely understand what this patch does :)
> I only send a very minor fix on top of Stas Sergeev's patch.
>
I'm suspecting a problem in the reporting scripts. The patch had:
From: Stas Sergeev <[email protected]>
Attached patch works around the corruption of the high word of the ESP
register, which is the official bug of x86 CPUs. The bug triggers only
when the one is using the 16bit stack segment, and is described here:
http://www.intel.com/design/intarch/specupdt/27287402.PDF
From: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
I think that Stas tries to steal 1024 bytes from kernel's memory.
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Petr Vandrovec <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Stas Sergeev <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
It looks like the final From: was used...
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