On Čt, 2013-10-31 at 22:05 +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 09:33:05AM +0100, Andre Robatino via RT wrote:
> > I have an old i686 machine with a Cyrix M II CPU running Fedora 19. The
> > latest version of openssl (openssl-1.0.1e-28.fc19.i686) doesn't work
> > properly with it due to OPENSSL_ia32_cpuid() misdetecting the RDRAND
> > instruction (see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1022346 ).
> > All previous versions (up to openssl-1.0.1e-4.fc19.i686) worked
> > properly. I was advised to create an upstream ticket. The listed bug
> > report contains /proc/cpuinfo output and a gdb stack trace.
>
> This is a duplicate of ticket #3005
>
> This has been fixed after the 1.0.1e release in:
> http://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff;h=5702e965d759dde8a098d8108660721ba2b93a7d
>
> But if -4 worked and -28 fails, you really should look what
> fedora changed between those releases.
The -4 worked because the RDRAND engine was erroneously completely
disabled in the Fedora build. Only after the enablement of it the bug in
the CPU detection could manifest.
--
Tomas Mraz
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Turkish proverb
(You'll never know whether the road is wrong though.)
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