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From:   Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Date:   Sun, 11 Apr 2021 16:21:21 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/msr: Block writes to certain MSRs unconditionally
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc:     Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
        Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
        "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        "Zhang, Rui" <rui.zhang@intel.com>,
        "Kleen, Andi" <andi.kleen@intel.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
        Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 10:04 AM Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 09:57:20AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> > Working around a kernel bug. The workaround only worked on AMD
> > systems. The correct solution was to fix the kernel bug, not poke
> > MSRs.
>
> Do you remember which program(s) and where I can get them to have a
> look?
>

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33275#c19

I sure hope no one is still doing this.

--Andy