From: Aravind Gopalakrishnan <aravind.gopalakrishnan@amd.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
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: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 11:58:13 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52D81DB5.7000608@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140114203848.GP29865@pd.tnic>
On 1/14/2014 2:38 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> Before you go and do that, just ask internally whether those
> workarounds are being delivered with AGESA instead. We don't want to
> have a fix in the kernel for *every* erratum if it can be helped.
> We're making an exception for this one because it can freeze the core
> just by executing a locked insn which can be done even in userspace.
Ok, So looks like workaround for E776 went in early, so it's probably
safe to assume all BIOSes will have the fix.
The workaround for E792 was checked in this month and *will* be picked
up by BIOS later..
We might want to still have a software fix for this just in case someone
uses older BIOSes..
> For future AMD patches, make sure to almost always use tip master,
> i.e. git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git#master
> to base your work off of.
I shall spin a patch on top of tip and send it out soon
Thanks,
-Aravind.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-16 17:58 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 [this message]
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
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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