MDS: The Newest Speculative Execution Side-Channel Vulnerability

[Xwaang]

I have a i7-6700hq laptop and at the moment I've disabled smt (hyperthreading) since it was vulnerable also with the latest archlinux kernel and intel-ucode updates.
Is someone working on properly mitigate mds and l1tf even when smt is active?

[hotaru]

Is someone working on properly mitigate mds and l1tf even when smt is active?

no, no one is working on that. it's not possible to properly mitigate MDS with SMT active.

[Xwaang]

no, no one is working on that. it's not possible to properly mitigate MDS with SMT active.

So if someone with a bugged Intel chip wants to be safe, he/she must disable smt (hyperthreading) until he/she changes its cpu. Is it correct?

[hotaru]

So if someone with a bugged Intel chip wants to be safe, he/she must disable smt (hyperthreading) until he/she changes its cpu. Is it correct?

if you want to be completely safe from MDS, yes, that's correct.