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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:57:04 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> To: Willy Tarreau <w@....eu> CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>, Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Matteo Croce <technoboy85@...il.com>, Sven-Haegar Koch <haegar@...net.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: i686 quirk for AMD Geode On 11/10/2009 10:36 PM, Willy Tarreau wrote: >> >> Do you have *any* *evidence* *whatsoever* for that assertion?! > > No, just basic feeling based on implementation cost and difficulty > vs gains as I explained. Quite on the contrary; in hardware it would be pretty hard to *not* do the right thing. >> I personally will consider something that doesn't implement proper >> security check to be a potential security hole and will NAK the patch. > > Even in the case of the NOPL instruction ? I clearly don't see > the potential security hole ! > You have it backwards. Prove that there *isn't* one and we'll talk. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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