Re: Hyper-Threading Vulnerability

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On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 10:10:36AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Barry K. Nathan wrote:
> >On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 07:51:20AM +0200, Gabor MICSKO wrote:
> >
> >>Is this flaw affects the current stable Linux kernels? Workaround?
> >>Patch?
> 
> Simple.  Just boot a uniprocessor kernel, and/or disable HT in BIOS.
> 
> 
> >Some pages with relevant information:
> >http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0403.2/0920.html
> >http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2317
> 
> These pages have zero information on the "flaw."  In fact, I can see no 
> information at all proving that there is even a problem here.

I meant that those two URL's have relevant information regarding
disabling HT for those of us who can't simply boot a UP kernel or
disable HT in the BIOS, not that they had information on the flaw.

-Barry K. Nathan <[email protected]>
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