Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2018 15:14:10 +0100
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
        Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>,
        "Woodhouse, David" <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
        Alan Cox <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
        Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linux-foundation.org>,
        Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Jeff Law <law@redhat.com>, Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Avoid speculative indirect calls in kernel
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On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 08:13:33AM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> I'm not fond of running the mitigations, but given that a few sysops can
> connect to the machine to collect stats or counters, I think it would be
> better to ensure these people can't happily play with the exploits to
> dump stuff they shouldn't have access to.

So if someone exploits the "trusted" process, and then dumps all memory,
you have practically lost.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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