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From:   Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Date:   Fri, 13 Mar 2020 00:29:24 +0100
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Subject: Re: interaction of MADV_PAGEOUT with CoW anonymous mappings?
To:     Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
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        Daniel Colascione <dancol@google.com>,
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On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 9:16 PM Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 09:22:48AM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > [Cc akpm]
> >
> > So what about this?
>
> Thanks, Michal.
>
> I't likde to wait Jann's reply since Dave gave his opinion about the vulnerability.
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/cf95db88-968d-fee5-1c15-10d024c09d8a@intel.com/
> Jann, could you give your insigh about that practically it's possible?

Since I don't really know much about the whole LVI attack, and in
particular don't have any practical experience with it, I don't think
I can help with insight on that. So since Dave said that he doesn't
think it's practical, I'll defer to him on that.