Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Wed, 21 Nov 2018 11:32:16 -0800 | Subject | Re: [Patch v6 14/16] x86/speculation: Use STIBP to restrict speculation on non-dumpable task |
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On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 9:41 AM Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> wrote: > > When STIBP is on, it will prevent not only untrusted code from attacking, > but also trusted code from getting attacked. So non-dumpable task running > with STIBP will protect itself from attacks from code running on sibling CPU.
I understand.
You didn't read my email about why "dumpable" is not sensible.
Linus
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