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Date:      Wed, 3 Jan 2018 22:01:38 +0300
From:      Lev Serebryakov <lev@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Joey Kelly <joey@joeykelly.net>, freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Intel hardware bug
Message-ID:  <104827876.20180103220138@serebryakov.spb.ru>
In-Reply-To: <7692356.NWgAdSPsLq@elisha.atlnet>
References:  <477ab39d-286d-d9a2-d31e-fd5f7f1679a8@sentex.net> <7692356.NWgAdSPsLq@elisha.atlnet>

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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.

-- 
Best regards,
 Lev                            mailto:lev@FreeBSD.org




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