Re: [PATCH] x86/msr: do not warn on writes to OC_MAILBOX

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Tue Sep 08 2020 - 13:37:10 EST


On Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 07:29:11PM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> Well that's not cool.

So you're saying that if someone wants to kill its box by poking at that
MSR, we should just let her/him?

If anything, I think that a BIG FAT WARNING at least would make sense.

Now, if there were a proper interface which would allow only valid
commands, now that would be optimal...

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Boris.

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