Hi!

On Tue, 12 Mar 2019, Pavel Machek wrote:

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On Mon 2019-03-11 23:31:08, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

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Calling this a lie is a completly unjustified personal attack on those who

So how should it be called? I initally used less strong words, only to
get "Care to tell what's a lie instead of making bold statements?"
back. Also look at the timing of the thread.

You called it a lie from the very beginning or what do you think made me
tell you that? Here is what you said:

Actually, I still call it a lie. Document clearly says that bug is
fixed in non-virtualized cases, when in fact it depends on PAE and
limited memory.

If you want to provide more accurate documentation then you better come up
with something which is helpful instead of completely useless blurb like
the below:

At this point I want you to fix it yourself. Lying about security bugs
being fixed when they are not is not cool. I tried to be helpful and
submit a patch, but I don't feel like you are cooperating on getting
the patch applied.

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+   Mitigation is present in kernels v4.19 and newer, and in
+   recent -stable kernels. PAE needs to be enabled for mitigation to
+   work.

No. The mitigation is available when the kernel provides it. Numbers are
irrelevant because that documentation has to be applicable for stable
kernels as well. And what is a recent -stable kernel?

Also the PAE part needs to go to a completely different section.

Best regards,
								Pavel


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