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

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Tue Jan 14 2014 - 10:35:50 EST


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.

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Boris.

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