* Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 7, 2018 at 2:11 PM, David Woodhouse <[email protected]> wrote: > > This is a mitigation for the 'variant 2' attack described in > > https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2018/01/reading-privileged-memory-with-side.html > > Ok, I don't love the patches, but I see nothing horribly wrong here > either, and I assume the performance impact of this is pretty minimal. > > Thomas? I'm obviously doing rc7 today without these, but I assume the > x86 maintainers are resigned to this all. And yes, we'll have at least > an rc8 this release..
I'm definitely resigned to them, and with these patches being disclosed so late we don't have any good choices left, so a tentative: Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Thanks, Ingo
