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-rw-r--r--NEWS3
-rw-r--r--src/cksum.c4
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 3350f9871..535850549 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -29,7 +29,8 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
'pr --length=1 --double-space' no longer enters an infinite loop.
[This bug was present in "the beginning".]
- 'wc -l' no longer crashes on x86 Linux kernels that disable XSAVE YMM.
+ 'wc -l' and 'cksum' no longer crash with an "Illegal instruction" error
+ on x86 Linux kernels that disable XSAVE YMM. This was seen on Xen VMs.
[bug introduced in coreutils-9.0]
** Changes in behavior
diff --git a/src/cksum.c b/src/cksum.c
index 26bb29bdb..5b6a59c16 100644
--- a/src/cksum.c
+++ b/src/cksum.c
@@ -229,9 +229,9 @@ crc_sum_stream (FILE *stream, void *resstream, uintmax_t *length)
static bool (*cksum_fp) (FILE *, uint_fast32_t *, uintmax_t *);
if (! cksum_fp)
cksum_fp = pclmul_supported () ? cksum_pclmul : cksum_slice8;
-#else
+# else
bool (*cksum_fp) (FILE *, uint_fast32_t *, uintmax_t *) = cksum_slice8;
-#endif
+# endif
if (! cksum_fp (stream, &crc, &total_bytes))
return -1;