Re: [patch] checksum P6 asm buffer overflow fix + 686 improvements

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Wed, 26 May 1999 23:35:52 +0200 (CEST)


On Wed, 26 May 1999, Finn Arne Gangstad wrote:

>The address is aligned to 4 before it is possible to hit that instruction,

%esi is not enforced to be 32bit aligned. You are supposing that nobody
will ever run csum_partial on buffer with an address with the LSB == 1.

Andrea Arcangeli

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