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And here's the mitigation in NetBSD: https://github.com/NetBSD/src/commit/afab82aeafd0c51afc036a8b35dd0ed428b2885b https://github.com/NetBSD/src/commit/afab82ae
by waddlesplash 7y ago
And here's the mitigation in NetBSD: https://github.com/NetBSD/src/commit/afab82aeafd0c51afc036a8b35dd0ed428b2885b https://github.com/NetBSD/src/commit/afab82aeafd0c51afc036a8...
Essentially: Intel released a microcode update which makes the `verw` instruction now magically flush MDS-affected buffers. On vulerable CPUs, this instruction now needs to be run on kernel exit; the microcode update won’t do it automatically on `sysexit`, unfortunately.
- nine_k 7y agoHopefully with this patches for other OSes should appear soon.