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On Jan 4,  3:27pm, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
} Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 00/11] Intel SGX Driver

Wild day, enjoyed by all I'm sure.

> On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 03:17:24PM +0100, Cedric Blancher wrote:
> > So how does this protect against the MELTDOWN attack (CVE-2017-5754)
> > and the MELTATOMBOMBA4 worm which uses this exploit?

> It has nothing to do with it at all, sorry.

Precision seems to be everything in these discussions.

Since SGX obviously does not mitigate micro-architectural state
probing it is not an effective general remediation against MELTDOWN.
Does your statement indicate there is solid documentation that
MELTDOWN can be used by a process of any privilege level to dump out
the unencrypted contents of an initialized enclave?

That would obviously be a big story as well.

> greg k-h

Have a good evening.

Greg

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