Re: [PATCH 0/5] Introduce support for PSF mitigation

2021-04-09 Thread Saripalli, RK
Josh, PSF being new, may be in the future someone will find something new. This is really extra precaution. On 4/9/2021 11:45 AM, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: > On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 09:56:47AM -0500, Saripalli, RK wrote: >> Josh, thank you for taking the time to review the patches. >> >> On

Re: [PATCH 0/5] Introduce support for PSF mitigation

2021-04-09 Thread Josh Poimboeuf
On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 09:56:47AM -0500, Saripalli, RK wrote: > Josh, thank you for taking the time to review the patches. > > On 4/7/2021 5:39 PM, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 06, 2021 at 10:49:59AM -0500, Ramakrishna Saripalli wrote: > >> Because PSF speculation is limited to the

Re: [PATCH 0/5] Introduce support for PSF mitigation

2021-04-09 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 09:56:47AM -0500, Saripalli, RK wrote: > It is possible most applications have been reviewed and scrubbed for > SSB-type attacks but PSF-type issues may not have been looked at yet. > This may be one of the cases where SSB is enabled but PSF is disabled > until the

Re: [PATCH 0/5] Introduce support for PSF mitigation

2021-04-08 Thread Saripalli, RK
Josh, thank you for taking the time to review the patches. On 4/7/2021 5:39 PM, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: > On Tue, Apr 06, 2021 at 10:49:59AM -0500, Ramakrishna Saripalli wrote: >> Because PSF speculation is limited to the current program context, >> the impact of bad PSF speculation is very similar

Re: [PATCH 0/5] Introduce support for PSF mitigation

2021-04-07 Thread Josh Poimboeuf
On Tue, Apr 06, 2021 at 10:49:59AM -0500, Ramakrishna Saripalli wrote: > Because PSF speculation is limited to the current program context, > the impact of bad PSF speculation is very similar to that of > Speculative Store Bypass (Spectre v4) > > Predictive Store Forwarding controls: > There are

Re: [PATCH 0/5] Introduce support for PSF mitigation

2021-04-07 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 07:49:48AM -0500, Ramakrishna Saripalli wrote: > From: Ramakrishna Saripalli It seems you're new to this kernel development thing. While you're waiting for your patches to be reviewed fully and properly, please take the time to read

Re: [PATCH 0/5] Introduce support for PSF mitigation

2021-04-06 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Tue, Apr 06, 2021 at 10:49:59AM -0500, Ramakrishna Saripalli wrote: > From: Ramakrishna Saripalli > > Predictive Store Forwarding: > AMD Zen3 processors feature a new technology called > Predictive Store Forwarding (PSF). > > You probably should upload it here: