From: Aravind Gopalakrishnan <aravind.gopalakrishnan@amd.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>,
X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Kim Naru <kim.naru@amd.com>,
Sherry Hurwitz <sherry.hurwitz@amd.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, CPU, AMD: Add workaround for family 16h, erratum 793
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 12:05:37 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52D970F1.3090401@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52D96B9D.703@zytor.com>
On 1/17/2014 11:42 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> Hence the question: did an unfixed BIOS ever make it into a shipping
> production system? Because if it did, we do have a coverage hole.
>
> -hpa
>
Right, and the answer to your question is: there is a *chance* it did..
From internal discussions, I could
gather that the fix went into BIOS code earlier for desktop/mobile
versions than it did for server versions;
So there is a chance production systems (desktop ones) might never see
the issue, but server ones will, as
BIOSes spun only from now onwards will have the workaround..
-Aravind.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-17 18:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-14 11:41 AMD errata 793 (CVE-2013-6885) needs a workaround in Linux? Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-01-14 11:55 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-14 15:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-14 15:35 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-14 16:27 ` [PATCH] x86, CPU, AMD: Add workaround for family 16h, erratum 793 Borislav Petkov
2014-01-14 16:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-14 16:42 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-14 17:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-14 23:07 ` [PATCH -v1.1] " Borislav Petkov
2014-01-15 0:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-15 11:10 ` [PATCH -v1.2] " Borislav Petkov
2014-01-15 0:45 ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86, cpu, amd: " tip-bot for Borislav Petkov
2014-01-15 0:54 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-15 6:28 ` Ingo Molnar
2014-01-15 13:36 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-15 13:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-15 18:38 ` Ingo Molnar
2014-01-16 4:11 ` H. Peter Anvin
[not found] ` <52D59ACC.3090100@amd.com>
2014-01-14 20:38 ` [PATCH] x86, CPU, AMD: " Borislav Petkov
2014-01-16 17:58 ` Aravind Gopalakrishnan
2014-01-16 18:10 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-17 0:21 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-01-17 0:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-17 10:18 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-17 16:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-17 17:02 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-17 17:36 ` Aravind Gopalakrishnan
2014-01-17 17:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-17 18:05 ` Aravind Gopalakrishnan [this message]
2014-01-17 18:25 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-17 22:28 ` Pavel Machek
2014-01-17 22:50 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-17 22:51 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-17 22:57 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-18 0:29 ` Pavel Machek
2014-01-18 1:21 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-01-18 2:01 ` Pavel Machek
2014-01-18 10:42 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-18 11:08 ` Pavel Machek
2014-01-18 11:26 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-18 11:31 ` Pavel Machek
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