AMD Inception / Speculative Return Stack Overflow Linux Mitigation Code Being Cleaned Up

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Phoronix: AMD Inception / Speculative Return Stack Overflow Linux Mitigation Code Being Cleaned Up

As soon as the AMD Inception CPU vulnerability was made public yesterday, the Linux kernel mitigation patches were merged and within hours appeared in six new stable point releases for the kernel along with the Intel Downfall mitigation patches. Today though these patches are seeing a rework to clean-up this mitigation...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Inception-Cleanup

[antonyshen]

AMD guys should work harder to prove themselves.

[fitzie]

the day 0 fix looks nothing like the day 14 fix, looks nothing like the day 90 fix.

[lowflyer]

AMD guys should work harder to prove themselves.

That sounds like a premature conclusion

[baka0815]

the day 0 fix looks nothing like the day 14 fix, looks nothing like the day 90 fix.

ACK. First make it work, than make it fast/better/whatever.