Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: handle Intel CPUs falsely reporting as GenuineIotel

[Borislav Petkov]

On Sat, Jul 04, 2026 at 02:15:02PM -0400, Evalyn Goemer wrote:
> > Overall, it's an outlier, and I'd flag such systems, not placate them.
> 
> Yeah it's a very strange thing I have found and thought could be worth 
> handling. I ended up making the patch this way since this is the only case of 
> this I could see as well other codebases online handled it similarly.

Well, Sashiko pointed out a couple more places:

https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260704025147.585133-1-git%40evalyngoemer.com

which would need to be taken care of too.

But I tend to agree with Christian and even go a step further - completely
stop booting on them. Because who knows what else has been tampered with in
them.

Yeah, yeah, bit flips, sure, but a system which generates bit flips reliably
gets its DRAM replaced so why should we treat this thing differently...

Let's see what Intel folks say here too.

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