From: "Rémi Denis-Courmont" <remi@remlab.net>
To: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Cc: Remi Denis-Courmont <courmisch@gmail.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] phonet: af_phonet: Fix Spectre v1 vulnerability
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2018 11:35:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2534569.ObK2OKVxXI@philogene> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181221214117.GA1539@embeddedor>
Le vendredi 21 décembre 2018, 23:41:17 EET Gustavo A. R. Silva a écrit :
> protocol is indirectly controlled by user-space, hence leading to
> a potential exploitation of the Spectre variant 1 vulnerability.
No objections but AFAIR, only privileged userspace can trigger that code so
the impact is kinda limited.
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Rémi Denis-Courmont
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-12-22 19:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-12-21 21:41 [PATCH] phonet: af_phonet: Fix Spectre v1 vulnerability Gustavo A. R. Silva
2018-12-22 9:35 ` Rémi Denis-Courmont [this message]
2018-12-22 23:08 ` David Miller
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