linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drm/bufs: Fix Spectre v1 vulnerability

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Message-ID: <ba298894-f463-c553-708a-ba033e81155c@embeddedor.com>
Date:   Wed, 17 Oct 2018 12:35:05 +0200
From:   "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
To:     Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>,
        Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...tlin.com>,
        Sean Paul <sean@...rly.run>, David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/bufs: Fix Spectre v1 vulnerability



On 10/17/18 9:19 AM, Daniel Vetter wrote:

>> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
>> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
> 
> Applied since it's correct, but I dropped the cc: stable. This code is
> very dead and full of security issues, and spectre is the least of your
> worries. If you want to a stab at fixing the real spectre issues in drm,
> then look anywhere that isn't full of drm_legacy_* functions.
>

OK. I've got it.

> The most important file is probably drm_ioctl.c.
> -Daniel
> 

Thanks for the feedback, Daniel.
--
Gustavo