@rysiek that article is so misleading and ambiguous that i literally cant even. I assume their talking about the MMU timing attack from CCC? That affects EVERY architecture tested. Table look up timing attacks are a thing
@rysiek The patches look like they are protecting against the mmu attack only for kaslr when it is useless anyhow and not user space aslr where it is useful.
It is NOT paging out the kernel. This attack is present in amd but not across rings.
The entire article is a fuck. https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5aa90a84589282b87666f92b6c3c917c8080a9bf
@rysiek it seems like they are mistaking an attack that tells you only if a page happens to be mapped or not at a given virtual memory address with an arbitrary kernel memory peek. The attack is the former and not very severe or useful.
