It also depends on your security model
It also depends on your security model
Posted Feb 27, 2018 18:40 UTC (Tue) by pbonzini (subscriber, #60935)In reply to: It also depends on your security model by rahvin
Parent article: Shedding old architectures and compilers in the kernel
There are many cases in which breaking $networkprocess is just as bad as getting root. (There are also many cases in which everything that you worry about is running as root, though these are less likely to run on a core with speculative execution). In both cases, Meltdown and Spectre are not really much to worry about.
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