Re: [Xen-devel] L1TF Patch Series v8

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 27.02.19 at 17:13, <nmanthey@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This patch series attempts to mitigate the issue that have been raised in the
> XSA-289 (https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-289.html). To block speculative
> execution on Intel hardware, an lfence instruction is required to make sure
> that selected checks are not bypassed. Speculative out-of-bound accesses can
> be prevented by using the array_index_nospec macro.
> 
> The major change compared to version 8 is in grant_table handling, protecting
> a few more version comparisons.

Apart from that last patch this series looks to have been ready to go in
for about a week. Would you still want to allow it in, or rather defer it
until after the release?

Jan



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