linux-kernel - Re: AMD errata 793 (CVE-2013-6885) needs a workaround in Linux?

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Message-ID: <20140114153534.GE29865@pd.tnic>
Date:	Tue, 14 Jan 2014 16:35:34 +0100
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>,
	X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: AMD errata 793 (CVE-2013-6885) needs a workaround in Linux?

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 07:14:48AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Seriously, though, if this MSR can be set at runtime without problems
> (which covers 98% of all workarounds, but not 100%) then it seems
> like a no-brainer to just do it as long as the offending CPUs can be
> identified by the kernel.

Yeah, ok, let me cook it up.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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