[PATCH 0/4] arm64: mitigate CVE-2024-7881 in the absence of firmware mitigation

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Wed Apr 8 14:26:10 PDT 2026


On Mon, 17 Mar 2025 at 21:26:12 +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> I'm really not comfortable with this series and would prefer to see it
> dropped while we continue the discussion, especially as it's causing
> minor conflicts with the KVM/arm64 tree in -next.
> 
> ...
> 
> To be clear: I'm not at all against mitigating this problem and
> advertising the status of that mitigation. I *am* against quietly
> handling it like a CPU erratum whilst simultaneously telling userspace
> that meltdown is not a problem regardless of the mitigation state.

Was there a conclusion? KVM still isn't even exposing
SMCCC_ARCH_WORKAROUND_4 to guests...
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