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Date:   Sun, 11 Apr 2021 19:03:57 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc:     Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/msr: Block writes to certain MSRs unconditionally
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On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 09:57:20AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> Working around a kernel bug. The workaround only worked on AMD
> systems. The correct solution was to fix the kernel bug, not poke
> MSRs.

Do you remember which program(s) and where I can get them to have a
look?

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette