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Old 3rd January 2018
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'Kernel memory leaking' Intel processor design flaw forces Linux, Windows redesign
Other OSes will need an update, performance hits loom

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01...u_design_flaw/

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I hope Intel at least disclosed important details to OpenBSD Developers. Given that Linux patches are published, it is not effective to keep these kind of information hidden.
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Wow, that's huge. Glad I don't have one of those CPUs.
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Bis repetita : https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=118296441702631
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That's precisely the mailing list thread which sprang to mind when I first read this.

I doubt it matters - consumer crap with planned obsolescence built in, will always sell by the bucketload. If AMD gain the upper hand as a result, they'll simply do the same - and on it goes. AMD are hardly spotless (PSP for example...).
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Last year, Google’s Project Zero team discovered serious security flaws caused by “speculative execution,” a technique used by most modern processors (CPUs) to optimize performance.
https://security.googleblog.com/2018...-you-need.html
https://meltdownattack.com/
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List: openbsd-tech
Subject: Meltdown, aka "Dear Intel, you suck"
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=151521435721902&w=2
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SPARC is not affected.
POWER 7/8/9 are affected but for Linux only. I don’t believe AIX is affected.
zSeries is affected but for Linux only. I don’t believe z/OS is affected.

Garbage architectures and garbage operating systems are affected. Go figure.
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Matt Dillon was talking about this kind of thing back in April.

http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/piperm...il/313292.html

Details of DragonFly's implementation of the mitigation: http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/piperm...ry/313758.html
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SPARC is not affected.
Are you sure about that? From what I've read at least the Fujitsu/HAL ones are. Granted, they may not be that relevant anymore...
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I stand corrected about AIX on POWER. IBM announced that AIX and i series patches will be released beginning February 12. But I’ve still not seen anything about z/OS. As far as I can find SPARC is unaffected.
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In my very own mundane view of the world I'm wondering about my soekris box (cpu0: Geode(TM) Integrated Processor by AMD PCS ("AuthenticAMD" 586-class) 434 MHz

Probably affected, too, I suppose...

Regarding SPARC I've actually seen conflicting reports. Go figure. But at least some of them have the out-of-order execution feature.
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Regarding SPARC I've actually seen conflicting reports. Go figure. But at least some of them have the out-of-order execution feature.
Theo de Raadt & Ted Uangst are talking about that:

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=151528446402030&w=2

They seem to think that SPARC is "safe" (mostly).

RISC-V are claiming immunity:

https://riscv.org/2018/01/more-secure-world-risc-v-isa/
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Raspberry Pi are not sure, but they believe that Raspberry Pi hardware is not affected.

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Here you go:
We do not believe any generation of Raspberry Pi hardware
is susceptible to either the Spectre or Meltdown vulnerabilities.
https://twitter.com/EbenUpton/status/948999181309530116


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Why Raspberry Pi isn’t vulnerable to Spectre or Meltdown
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The lack of speculation in the ARM1176, Cortex-A7, and Cortex-A53 cores used in Raspberry Pi render us immune to attacks of the sort.
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/why...e-or-meltdown/
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Explained in xkcd style:
https://xkcd.com/1938/
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Handling of CPU bugs disclosure 'incredibly bad': OpenBSD's de Raadt
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Someone posted this link in a comment on undeadly:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam...treAndMeltdown

Looks like the Ubuntu-Team was notified on November 9th 2017 of the issue.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/qrs/statu...62488348446721
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Speculative execution considered harmful in 1995: "Prefetching may fetch otherwise inaccesible instructions in Virtual 8086 mode."
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/220...aaf7756857.pdf

https://twitter.com/carlitoscapote/s...548224/photo/1
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"This analysis is being performed under the auspices of the National Security Agency's Trusted Evaluation Program (TPEP)".
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Theo de Raadt said,
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It is a scandal, and I want repaired processors for free. I don't care if they are 30% slower, as long as they work to spec. Intel has been exceedingly clever to mix Meltdown (speculative loads) with a separate issue (Spectre). This is pulling the wool over the public's eyes.
Linus Torvalds was not happy with Intel either,

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I think somebody inside of Intel needs to really take a long hard look at their CPU's, and actually admit that they have issues instead of writing PR blurbs that say that everything works as designed.

.. and that really means that all these mitigation patches should be written with "not all CPU's are crap" in mind.

Or is Intel basically saying "we are committed to selling you shit forever and ever, and never fixing anything"?
The inventor of Linux is furious at Intel
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This is why I have for the longest time been saying that Linux/x86 is a bad thing to have take over the world. There should and need to be more options than just Linux and just x86_64.

The world still needs mainframes and it still needs AIX and Solaris. The world still needs Z, POWER, SPARC.
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