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Re: [Patch v1] Bug fix - Integer overflow when cpu frequency > u32 max value.


  • To: Elliott Mitchell <ehem+xen@xxxxxxx>
  • From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2022 08:48:59 +0100
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On 17.12.2022 21:17, Elliott Mitchell wrote:
> Note to Xen and Linux distribution maintainers: I suggest this needs a
> point release of Xen.  A large processor manufacturer has recently
> released such a processor.  A great number of people are going to be
> rather unhappy in short order without this fix.

As long as we aren't cutting point releases on every XSA (batch), I have
a hard time seeing why we'd make any in this case. The change is going to
be backported, sure.

Jan



 


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