Re: x86: XSAVE flags mystery

From: Tavis Ormandy
Date: Thu Jan 12 2023 - 23:07:59 EST


On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 09:30:37AM -0800, Tavis Ormandy wrote:
> Hello, I have a mystery and wonder if it might be a kernel bug.
>

It seems like other people have noticed the same issue:

https://robert.ocallahan.org/2017/06/another-case-of-obscure-cpu.html

I guess it is just an unexplained CPU quirk, not a kernel bug.

Weird.

Thanks,
Tavis.


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