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What do you think this fixes? Tiny info leak about kernel addresses? There are still other more reliable ways to get that (even if there is active work to remov
by wilun 9y ago
What do you think this fixes? Tiny info leak about kernel addresses? There are still other more reliable ways to get that (even if there is active work to remove those), and I don't believe this would yield to a semi-rushed patch with 5% mean and sometimes 30% performance degradation impact enabled by default, with Linus himself expecting to be backported (rarely to never seen on a change of this importance, and would make no sense given older kernels are even more full of simpler kaddr info leak)
This fixes something bigger than Intel could not fix by microcode update...