Notes from the Intelpocalypse
Notes from the Intelpocalypse
[Security] Posted Jan 4, 2018 0:42 UTC (Thu) by corbet
Rumors of an undisclosed CPU security issue have been circulating since before LWN first covered the kernel page-table isolation patch set in November 2017. Now, finally, the information is out — and the problem is even worse than had been expected. Read on for a summary of these issues and what has to be done to respond to them in the kernel.