2009/11/3 Claire beuserie <claire.beuse...@gmail.com>: > Hi, > > On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:58 AM, Theo de Raadt <dera...@cvs.openbsd.org>wrote: > >> 2) At least three of our developers were aware of this exploitation >> method going back perhaps two years before than the commit, but we >> gnashed our teeth a lot to try to find other solutions. Clever >> cpu architectures don't have this issue because the virtual address >> spaces are seperate, so i386/amd64 are the ones with the big impact. >> We did think long and hard about tlb bashing page 0 everytime we >> switch into the kernel, but it still does not look attractive from >> a performance standpoint. >> > > I'm confused. > > That came out a bit weird: are you saying you knew about the bug for 2 years > but did not fix it? > > > c.b- > >
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