AMD Confirms CPU Bug Found By DragonFly BSD's Matt Dillon

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    An anonymous reader writes “Matt Dillon of DragonFly BSD just announced that AMD confirmed a CPU bug he found. Matt quotes part of the mail exchange and it looks like ‘consecutive back-to-back pops and (near) return instructions can create a condition where the processor incorrectly updates the stack pointer.’ The specific manifestations in DragonFly were random segmentation faults under heavy load.”


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