Re: CVE-2017-5754 - XEN silent_disable?

2018-01-13 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Jan 13, 2018 at 10:45:31AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: [...] > For the "silent" part, I've reported a wishlist bug here: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=887061 You're my hero :) thanks - -- t -BEGIN PGP SIGNAT

Re: CVE-2017-5754 - XEN silent_disable?

2018-01-13 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2018-01-13 08:25:53 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > FWIW, this is the patch which brought it about: > > > http://lists-archives.com/linux-kernel/29009008-kaiser-disabled-on-xen-pv.html > > I'm not very happy with the "silent" part either. For the "silent" part, I've reported a wishlist bu

Re: CVE-2017-5754 - XEN silent_disable?

2018-01-12 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 08:08:17PM -0500, bw wrote: > > > On Fri, 12 Jan 2018, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > But I think I've found the reason: > > > > In arch/x86/mm/kaiser.c: > > > > void __init kaiser_check_boottime_disable(void) > > { > > [...]