Re: meltdown

[Piotr Meyer <aniou%smutek.pl@localhost>]

On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 02:48:11AM -0600, Dave Huang wrote:
> On Jan 4, 2018, at 15:22, Phil Nelson <phil%pcnelson.net@localhost> wrote:
> > How about turning on the workaround for any process that ignores
> > or catches SEGV.    Any process that is terminated by a SEGV should
> > be safe, shouldn't it?
> 
> Isn't there a suggested mitigation? Seems to me NetBSD should implement 
> it as suggested, rather than coming up with its own special criteria 
> for when to enable the workaround.

BTW: latest summary below:

https://security.googleblog.com/2018/01/more-details-about-mitigations-for-cpu_4.html

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/05/spectre_flaws_explained/    

Regards,
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Piotr 'aniou' Meyer