Re: kqueue periodic timer confusion

2012-07-13 Thread Davide Italiano
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 5:25 PM, John Baldwin wrote: > On Thursday, July 12, 2012 11:08:47 am Davide Italiano wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 4:26 PM, John Baldwin wrote: >> > On Thursday, July 12, 2012 9:57:16 am Ian Lepore wrote: >> >> On Thu, 2012-07-12 at 08:34 -0400, John Baldwin wrote: >>

Re: CVE-2012-0217 Intel's sysret Kernel Privilege Escalation and FreeBSD 6.2/6.3

2012-07-13 Thread John Baldwin
On Thursday, July 12, 2012 12:36:07 pm Bill Crisp wrote: > Good Morning! > > This was also posted to the FreeBSD forums: > > I have been researching CVE-2012-0217 and while I have patched the kernels > on servers with 7.3/8.2 that I have, I would like to see if anyone knows > for sure if 6.2/6.3

Re: kqueue periodic timer confusion

2012-07-13 Thread John Baldwin
On Friday, July 13, 2012 8:22:13 am Davide Italiano wrote: > On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 5:25 PM, John Baldwin wrote: > > On Thursday, July 12, 2012 11:08:47 am Davide Italiano wrote: > >> On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 4:26 PM, John Baldwin wrote: > >> > On Thursday, July 12, 2012 9:57:16 am Ian Lepore wro

Re: CVE-2012-0217 Intel's sysret Kernel Privilege Escalation and FreeBSD 6.2/6.3

2012-07-13 Thread John Baldwin
On Friday, July 13, 2012 10:42:04 am Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <201207130831.59211@freebsd.org>, John Baldwin writes: > > >Every FreeBSD/amd64 kernel in existent is vulnerable. In truth, my personal > >opinion is that Intel screwed up their implementation of that instruction >

Re: CVE-2012-0217 Intel's sysret Kernel Privilege Escalation and FreeBSD 6.2/6.3

2012-07-13 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <201207130831.59211@freebsd.org>, John Baldwin writes: >Every FreeBSD/amd64 kernel in existent is vulnerable. In truth, my personal >opinion is that Intel screwed up their implementation of that instruction >whereas AMD got it right, and we are merely working around Intel's CPU b

Re: CVE-2012-0217 Intel's sysret Kernel Privilege Escalation and FreeBSD 6.2/6.3

2012-07-13 Thread Arnaud Lacombe
Hi, On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 11:02 AM, John Baldwin wrote: > On Friday, July 13, 2012 10:42:04 am Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> In message <201207130831.59211@freebsd.org>, John Baldwin writes: >> >> >Every FreeBSD/amd64 kernel in existent is vulnerable. In truth, my > personal >> >opinion is t

Re: newbus' ivar's limitation..

2012-07-13 Thread Arnaud Lacombe
Hi, On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 1:20 AM, Warner Losh wrote: > [..] > Honestly, though, I think you'll be more pissed when you find out that the > N:1 interface that you want is being done in the wrong domain. But I've been > wrong before and look forward to seeing your replacement. > I will just p