On Sat 2014-01-18 12:26:20, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 12:08:29PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > > ?? By the time userspace is booted, you have overwritten the MSR, and > > information, if the BIOS is buggy, was lost. > > Bullshit - if you don't apply the workaround, the bit in the MSR remains > unset.
If you do not apply the workaround, you have the buggy system that may or may not boot. There's even CVE for it. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/