Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 26 Jan 2018 16:43:10 +0000 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] cpu: do not leak vulnerabilities to unprivileged users |
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On Fri, 26 Jan 2018 13:31:58 +0100 "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com> wrote:
> While it's public information if the CPU in general has spectre/meltdown > bugs, it probably shouldn't be as globally obvious to all unprivileged > users
As I replied to you last time you posted this
a) The info is already trivially accessible via /proc/cpuinfo or by measurement to an attacker b) Some JIT and other environments need to know
Alan
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