Re: [PATCH 06/18] x86, barrier: stop speculation for failed access_ok

From: David Miller
Date: Sun Jan 07 2018 - 21:05:01 EST


From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2018 19:31:41 +0100 (CET)

> 2) Alexei's analyis is purely based on the public information of the google
> zero folks. If it would be complete and the only attack vector all fine.
>
> If not and I doubt it is, we're going to regret this decision faster
> than we made it and this is not the kind of play field where we can
> afford that.

Please state this more clearly.

Do you know about other attack vectors and just are not allowed to
talk about them?

Or is this, ironically, speculation?