"H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Robert Dewar wrote: >> H.J. Lu wrote: >> >>> So that is the bug in the Linux kernel. Since fixing kernel is much >>> easier >>> than providing a workaround in compilers, I think kernel should be fixed >>> and no need for icc/gcc fix. >> >> Fixing a bug in the Linux kernel is not "much easier". You are taking >> a purely engineering viewpoint, but life is not like that. There are >> lots of copies of Linux kernels around and in use. The issue is not >> fixing the kernel per se, it is propagating that change to all >> Linux kernels in use -- THAT'S another matter entirely, and is >> far far more difficult than making sure that a kernel fix is >> qualified and widely proopagated. >> > > Not really, it's just a matter of time. Typical distro cycles are on > the order of 3 years.
But distros release fixes regularly for their kernels - and adding a fix
for this issue with their next security update is something that is
possible for distros (at least for openSUSE ;-),
Andreas
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