Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86/bugs: Clean-up verw mitigations

[Borislav Petkov]

On Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 08:33:51AM -0700, Daniel Sneddon wrote:
> I really like the attack vector idea David is using. I suspect people really
> care about "protect my kernel from bad users" or "protect my host vm from
> guests" more than "protect me from mds and rfds." 

Yeah, exactly!

> I was trying to get rid of the need to do a call to any kind of update
> function where he took the existing function and split it into one for each
> mitigation that needs it. Like you said, different approach same end result
> really.

Right.

Ok, let's concentrate on David's set, then, so that we don't do
unnecessary/doubled work. I'd appreciate it if you took a look at the Intel's
side of things there but please wait until he sends a new version next week.

I guess if all agree with the final result, we could look into taking it for
6.14 or so...

Thx.

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    Boris.

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