From: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org>,
open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>,
lkft-triage@lists.linaro.org, Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RETBleed: WARNING: Spectre v2 mitigation leaves CPU vulnerable to RETBleed attacks, data leaks possible!
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2022 15:19:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220715221901.xm3c4w4idqt67uja@desk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Ys/bWIk0F5srkkpF@kroah.com>
On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 11:01:12AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 02:15:07PM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> > Results from Linaro’s test farm.
> >
> > We are booting the i386 kernel on an x86 machine.
> > With Spectre V2 patches merged into Linux mainline we have been noticing
> > RETBleed: WARNING: Spectre v2 mitigation leaves CPU vulnerable to
> > RETBleed attacks, data leaks possible!
>
> That's funny. I don't think that's a valid combination that should be
> cared about, but I'll leave it to Pawan to comment if it is something
> that is "real" to be concerned for.
Intel is not aware of production environments that use 32-bit mode on
Skylake-gen CPUs. So this should not be a concern.
Thanks,
Pawan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-07-15 22:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-07-14 8:45 RETBleed: WARNING: Spectre v2 mitigation leaves CPU vulnerable to RETBleed attacks, data leaks possible! Naresh Kamboju
2022-07-14 9:01 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-07-14 9:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2022-07-15 22:19 ` Pawan Gupta [this message]
2022-07-23 21:50 ` Adam Borowski
2022-07-24 9:25 ` Jan Engelhardt
2022-07-24 12:30 ` Adam Borowski
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