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Add comment about CVE related to FPU state on x86

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Merged Sotiris Apostolakis requested to merge iX-add-cve-for-eager-fpu-state into master May 04, 2021
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Adds a comment that reports a relatively recent security vulnerability that forces eager saving and restoration of FPU state for every task/context switch. These changes might make the execution of an xmm-related inst in signal_arch_init unnecessary. Yet, it does not remove this inst execution, given that older kernels will not have this fix and since eager FPU state save/restore mitigates transparency concerns (this instruction execution essentially will have minimum (if any) visible effect on recent kernels).

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Source branch: iX-add-cve-for-eager-fpu-state