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From: David Windsor <dave@progbits.org>
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2016 07:48:00 -0400
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Subject: Re: [kernel-hardening] [RFC v2 PATCH 00/13] HARDENED_ATOMIC
To: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>, Hans Liljestrand <ishkamiel@gmail.com>
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On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 6:31 AM, Reshetova, Elena
<elena.reshetova@intel.com> wrote:
>
>>Done.  I added a line to the "HARDENED_ATOMIC Implementation" section of =
Documentation/security/hardened-atomic.txt describing the results of the be=
nchmarks (no measurable performance difference).  You might want to add thi=
s line to the cover >letter as well.
>
> Oh, one more thing. David you were planning to change a bit the wording o=
n the racing issue in the documentation. Could you please still do it? Woul=
d be great to fix that before sending next rfc.
>

Ah yes, I forgot about this, sorry!  I just updated the language in
Documentation/security/hardened-atomic.txt to include a line
indicating that the x86 race is only reachable in SMP conditions.

I push --force'd the change to hardened_atomic_next.

> @everyone: Now I finally cleaned up and repo and deleted all unneeded bra=
nches. The main working branch is *hardened_atomic_next* now (based on linu=
x-next stable branch)
>
> Best Regards,
> Elena.