Re: UMIP and clearcpuid=

From: Borislav Petkov

Date: Thu Jun 11 2026 - 12:18:41 EST


On Thu, Jun 11, 2026 at 09:53:11AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> So my own game box also has this; aside from the dmesg spam, there was
> one game that just plain didn't run. I forgot what it was, but I'm sure
> it was related to some dodgy DRM thing.

Right,

> It is really annoying having to disable UMIP though, its bugged me, just
> not enough to ever actually do anything about it.

Well, what else could we do? Whitelist processes, make it more fine-grained or
so...?

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