Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2018 19:49:32 +0100
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: David Lang <david@lang.hm>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>, 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>,
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        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: Avoid speculative indirect calls in kernel
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On Sun, Jan 07, 2018 at 09:21:44AM -0800, David Lang wrote:
> The point is that in many cases, if someone explits the "trusted" process,
> they already have everything that the machine is able to do anyway.

...and then we don't need the per-process complication anyway.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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