[PATCH] drm/bufs: Fix Spectre v1 vulnerability

Gustavo A. R. Silva gustavo at embeddedor.com
Wed Oct 17 10:35:05 UTC 2018



On 10/17/18 9:19 AM, Daniel Vetter wrote:

>> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
>> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo at embeddedor.com>
> 
> Applied since it's correct, but I dropped the cc: stable. This code is
> very dead and full of security issues, and spectre is the least of your
> worries. If you want to a stab at fixing the real spectre issues in drm,
> then look anywhere that isn't full of drm_legacy_* functions.
>

OK. I've got it.

> The most important file is probably drm_ioctl.c.
> -Daniel
> 

Thanks for the feedback, Daniel.
--
Gustavo


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