Re: whee, first Linux workaround for the F0 0F bug found!

Jani Hakala (jahakala@cc.jyu.fi)
Thu, 13 Nov 1997 13:46:25 +0200


On Wed, Nov 12, 1997 at 01:46:10PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> I still don't have any pentium closeby to actually test this, so I'm
> appending patches relative to 2.1.63. Does this still work for people with
> the bug?
>
Seems to be ok. I haven't been able to crash my pentium 166 (non-SMP,
stepping 12) with that f00f-exploit.

Jani Hakala