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Date:      Tue, 9 Oct 2018 23:36:41 +0300
From:      Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
To:        Dave Cottlehuber <dch@skunkwerks.at>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD Errata Notice FreeBSD-EN-18:08.lazyfpu
Message-ID:  <20181009203641.GB5335@kib.kiev.ua>
In-Reply-To: <1538990471.3423409.1534301664.7759970E@webmail.messagingengine.com>
References:  <20180912054340.1267C13295@freefall.freebsd.org> <1536910798.329524.1507804736.2F76C06D@webmail.messagingengine.com> <1538990471.3423409.1534301664.7759970E@webmail.messagingengine.com>

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On Mon, Oct 08, 2018 at 11:21:11AM +0200, Dave Cottlehuber wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Sep 2018, at 09:39, Dave Cottlehuber wrote:
> > On Wed, 12 Sep 2018, at 07:43, FreeBSD Errata Notices wrote:
> > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > > Hash: SHA512
> > > 
> > > =============================================================================
> > > FreeBSD-EN-18:08.lazyfpu                                        Errata Notice
> > >                                                           The FreeBSD Project
> > > 
> > > Topic:          LazyFPU remediation causes potential data corruption
> > 
> > Data Corruption reads a bit like "Imminent SuperNova in Your Area".. I'm
> > not really sure what it means for users & sysadmins. Given we've had the
> > original lazyfpu patches out for 11.x for a few months[1]:
> > 
> > - what might data corruption entail?
The FPU registers can be corrupted.  This was observed so far only on the
in-kernel FPU consumer, i.e. aesni.ko.


> > - has this been observed in the wild?
Yes, see above.

> > 
> > Many thanks for the efforts into making these patches available.
> > Dave
> > 
> > [1]: https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-18:07.lazyfpu.asc
> 
> Hi secteam, can you shed any light on the above?
> 
> Thanks
> Dave
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