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  • More Linux Fixes/Cleanups Coming For AMD Inception/SRSO Mitigation Code

    Phoronix: More Linux Fixes/Cleanups Coming For AMD Inception/SRSO Mitigation Code

    Earlier this month when the AMD Inception CPU vulnerability was disclosed the initial mitigation was merged to Linux kernel right away for what there is referred to as the Speculative Return Stack Overflow (SRSO). Within a day of that code being published there were already efforts to clean it up and merged last week for Linux 6.5-rc7 was that AMD Inception code cleaning. This week a new set of 22 patches were published for further improving the AMD Inception/SRSO mitigation code...

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  • #2
    Don't worry people, Intel, AMD & Folks are coming out with new processors* that don't suffer from these vulnerabilities so get your wallets out and pay for our security failures.


    * New motherboard required, available separately.

    Kerching.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Slartifartblast View Post
      Don't worry people.
      “It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.” - Joseph Conrad

      Personally, it is the unreliable and more complicated modern cars that cost much more than all these CPU bugs combined.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Slartifartblast View Post
        Don't worry people, Intel, AMD & Folks are coming out with new processors* that don't suffer from these vulnerabilities so get your wallets out and pay for our security failures.


        * New motherboard required, available separately.

        Kerching.
        mitigations=off, simple as

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        • #5
          Originally posted by HEL88 View Post
          “It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.” - Joseph Conrad

          Personally, it is the unreliable and more complicated modern cars that cost much more than all these CPU bugs combined.
          Also doing nothing can be a mistake.

          Didn't lock the backdoor ?

          Whoops.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by RejectModernity View Post

            mitigations=off, simple as
            Not exactly, don't forget to lock out microcode updates too.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by RejectModernity View Post

              mitigations=off, simple as
              Are we talking to the owner of this account, or one of the people who compromised their system?

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