Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/3] x86: cpu/bugs: update SpectreRSB comments for AMD
From: Josh Poimboeuf
Date: Wed Nov 13 2024 - 16:25:21 EST
On Tue, Nov 12, 2024 at 12:58:11PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 11, 2024 at 05:46:44PM -0800, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> > Subject: [PATCH] x86/bugs: Update insanely long comment about RSB attacks
>
> Why don't you stick this insanely long comment in
> Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/ while at it?
>
> Its place is hardly in the code. You can point to it from the code tho...
There are a lot of subtle details to this $#!tstorm, and IMO we probably
wouldn't be having these discussions in the first place if the comment
lived in the docs, as most people seem to ignore them...
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Josh