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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 16:45:14 +0100
From: 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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* Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote:

> 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.

Ok - that's fine by me too, as long as it's a one time warning only.

Thanks,

	Ingo