Brodie Robertson

This Linux Patch Removes Spectre & Meltdown Protections


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It's been a few years since Spectre and Meltdown were major news stories and since the mitigations were added for those and other exploits you've been able to remove them with a kernel parameter but this patch would let you disable them at build time
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==========Resources==========
Phoronix Article: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Default-Mitigations-Off
Kernel Parameters Docs: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.html
Linux Patch RFC: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/
Linux Patch: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/T/
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