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Re: [PATCH] Fix __memcpy_chk on non-SSE2 CPUs
- From: Allan McRae <allan at archlinux dot org>
- To: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>, evangelos at foutrelis dot com
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 22:32:45 +1000
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix __memcpy_chk on non-SSE2 CPUs
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- References: <1423540140-24973-1-git-send-email-allan at archlinux dot org> <54DB3A2C dot 50801 at redhat dot com>
On 11/02/15 21:17, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 02/10/2015 04:49 AM, Allan McRae wrote:
>> From: Evangelos Foutras <evangelos@foutrelis.com>
>>
>> In commit 8b4416d, the 1: jump label in __mempcpy_chk was accidentally
>> moved. This resulted in failures of mempcpy on CPU without SSE2.
>
> Please state the nature of these failures.
>
> Does the system still boot?
>
It still booted. Not much uses mempcpy it seems.
The two reports I saw, both were from "ls -l" segfaulting:
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/43753
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1190454
Allan