* [dpdk-dev] RFC - remove Transactional Memory support?
@ 2019-11-13 17:49 Stephen Hemminger
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From: Stephen Hemminger @ 2019-11-13 17:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: pablo.de.lara.guarch; +Cc: dev
In response to the new TSX Async Abort vulnerability (TAA); perhaps it would be best to
remove the limited Transactional Memory support in rte_hash.
The feature is not widely used, a potential security soft spot and only supported
on Intel (and broken by design there).
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=a7a248c593e4
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