Re: [RFC PATCH v2 6/6] x86/entry/pti: don't switch PGD on when pti_disable is set

[Willy Tarreau]

On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 10:38:07AM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 01/11/2018 10:32 AM, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> >> hmm. Exposing cr3 to user space will make it trivial for user process
> >> to know whether kpti is active. Not sure how exploitable such
> >> information leak.
> > It's already trivial to detect PTI from user space.
> 
> Do tell.

Probably because meltdown doesn't work anymore ? :-)

Willy