* Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 7, 2018 at 2:11 PM, David Woodhouse <d...@amazon.co.uk> 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 <mi...@kernel.org>
Thanks,
Ingo
