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From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
To: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>,
	alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ALSA: isa/wavefront: Fix potential Spectre v1 vulnerabilities
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2018 11:51:59 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <16ea3722-c1e7-b82a-2708-e26132ed7c78@embeddedor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <s5hlg4km77z.wl-tiwai@suse.de>



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

  reply	other threads:[~2018-12-20 17:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-19 23:31 Gustavo A. R. Silva
2018-12-20  8:11 ` Takashi Iwai
2018-12-20 17:13   ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2018-12-20 17:35     ` Takashi Iwai
2018-12-20 17:51       ` Gustavo A. R. Silva [this message]
2019-03-26 18:32 Gustavo A. R. Silva
2019-04-15 19:35 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2019-04-15 22:34   ` Takashi Iwai
2019-04-15 22:40     ` Gustavo A. R. Silva

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