On Sun, Jan 19, 2020 at 02:07:13AM +0000, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 02:16:32AM +0000, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > > For intel GPUs, except GEN8 (Broadwell), this week's vulnerability > > is being covered at Phoronix. Ostensibly, information disclosure to > > a local unprivileged user and possible DoS. At this point it is > > unclear if this vulnerability can be accessed by malicious code > > running in a web browser, so perhaps only relevant to people hosting > > virtual systems. > > > > For desktops, it seems to be limited to fingerprinting the machine. > > For Gen7 there was apparently a second set of patches, but currently > concerned with correctness and not yet ready for submission - with > the hope that performance problems can be fixed before it is ready > for submission. > Phoronix has now pointed to a second public set of patches at freedesktop, comments in the thread imply it might need more (hopefully, minor) revision for kernel style.
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