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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 15:45:06 +0100
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 2/6] x86/arch_prctl: add ARCH_GET_NOPTI and
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On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 08:25:08AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> We could taint the kernel and warn prominently in the syslog when PTI is disabled 
> globally on the boot line though, if running on affected CPUs.
> 
> Something like:
> 
>  "x86/intel: Page Table Isolation (PTI) is disabled globally. This allows unprivileged, untrusted code to exploit the Meltdown CPU bug to read kernel data."
> 

I think we should warn in the per-mm disabling case too. Not the same
text but a similar blurb about the trusted process becoming a high-value
target.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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