[alsa-devel] [PATCH] ALSA: isa/wavefront: Fix potential Spectre v1 vulnerabilities
Gustavo A. R. Silva
gustavo at embeddedor.com
Thu Dec 20 18:51:59 CET 2018
On 12/20/18 11:35 AM, Takashi Iwai wrote:
>
> Well, no, my question is whether it makes sense to patch the code path
> for such ISA drivers. Spectre seems applicable since the model around
> 2006 or so, and ISA slot has been already dead for very long time.
> And yet with this minor board... I bet no one hits this in the
> world.
>
Oh, I see. I'm not stopping to analyze all the context around a driver
other than the code itself. So, thanks for pointing this out. I won't
touch those drivers from now on.
Thanks
--
Gustavo
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