From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>,
Zhenguo Yao <yaozhenguo1@gmail.com>,
Liu Yuntao <liuyuntao10@huawei.com>,
Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] hugetlb: clean up potential spectre issue warnings
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2022 20:41:50 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220223204150.5e90910fc40ff869666ad4c3@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4bad1923-354d-3858-0339-82df8c090c3f@oracle.com>
On Tue, 22 Feb 2022 13:53:56 -0800 Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> wrote:
> > gadget as it is a _one_ time early boot call. If there is a scenario
> > where this could be really abused then it should be mentioned
> > explicitly.
>
> How about adding this note to the commit message?
I have already done that. I added
"As Michal pointed out, this is unlikely to be exploitable because it is
__init code. But the patch suppresses the warnings."
prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-02-24 4:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-02-18 21:29 Mike Kravetz
2022-02-21 8:42 ` Michal Hocko
2022-02-21 20:24 ` Mike Kravetz
2022-02-22 7:47 ` Michal Hocko
2022-02-22 16:15 ` Schaufler, Casey
2022-02-22 16:36 ` Dan Carpenter
2022-02-23 8:35 ` Michal Hocko
2022-02-22 21:53 ` Mike Kravetz
2022-02-23 8:33 ` Michal Hocko
2022-02-23 18:36 ` Mike Kravetz
2022-02-24 9:31 ` Michal Hocko
2022-02-24 4:41 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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