Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 Oct 2022 22:56:37 +0200 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: also disable FSRM if ERMS is disabled |
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On Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 07:08:51PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote: > I don't think Intel will deliberately release a CPU that has FSRM=1, ERMS=0.
Sure, but I don't mean that. Rather: if for some reason the kernel or BIOS is supposed to fix an erratum related to those enhanced REP moving routines and goes and clears the MSR bit.
That won't help because userspace will still use them since the CPUID flags remain set.
I guess such a case is probably not going to happen in real life but if it happened, that bit clearing is kinda useless.
I'd say.
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