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Date:      Wed, 3 Jan 2018 10:23:20 -0900
From:      Royce Williams <royce@techsolvency.com>
To:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Intel hardware bug
Message-ID:  <CA%2BE3k90d21gazzxFOAY2ZBD01HPXbn9v_whOpG1yVvPPCpuysA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <104827876.20180103220138@serebryakov.spb.ru>
References:  <477ab39d-286d-d9a2-d31e-fd5f7f1679a8@sentex.net> <7692356.NWgAdSPsLq@elisha.atlnet> <104827876.20180103220138@serebryakov.spb.ru>

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On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 10:01 AM, Lev Serebryakov <lev@freebsd.org> wrote:

> Hello Joey,
>
> Wednesday, January 3, 2018, 4:56:50 AM, you wrote:
>
> > No way around it. It's hardware FAIL, and ignoring it isn't an option
> since
> > it's apparently a huge hole.
>  Looks like there IS way around it and it was "silently" committed to Linux
>
> http://pythonsweetness.tumblr.com/post/169166980422/the-
> mysterious-case-of-the-linux-page-table
>
>  But TLB flush on each syscall (twice) will slow down system, of course, so
> there should be option to disable it.
>

For what it's worth, this purports to be a PoC:

https://gist.github.com/dougallj/f9ffd7e37db35ee953729491cfb71392

Royce



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