Re: [PATCH] x86/CPU/AMD: Make sure EFER[AIBRSE] is set

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Sun Feb 26 2023 - 13:44:25 EST


On Sun, Feb 26, 2023 at 09:27:26AM -0800, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> At least now it's a (mostly) self-contained hornets nest. I'm not sure
> we want to poke it :-)
>
> And I'm not sure spreading the mess around would be an improvement.

Yah, if anything, I wanna see the change first and it has to be an
obvious and good one.

What I think we should finish doing, though, is documenting it. Because
there are aspects/mitigations that are missing, e.g., there's no
retbleed.rst in Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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