Re: [PATCH] x86/uaccess: Avoid barrier_nospec() in copy_from_user()
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Date: 2024-10-17 11:01:38
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Date: 2024-10-17 11:01:38
On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 03:32:32PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
My preference would actually be to do nothing, on the assumption that the AMD issue is actually impossible to trigger (due to CLAC/STAC serializing memory address checks - which the timings certainly imply they do).
I'm verifying that assumption...
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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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