Re: SSE related security hole

Andi Kleen (ak@suse.de)
19 Apr 2002 16:06:17 +0200

"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:
>
> Perhaps the right thing to do is to have a description in data of the
> desired initialization state and just F[NX]RSTOR it?

Sounds like the cleanest solution. The state could be saved at CPU bootup
with just MXCSR initialized.

I'll implement that for x86-64.

-Andi
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