Re: FreeBSD mds mitigation.
Konstantin Belousov <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.hackers,gmane.os.freebsd.security.general |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 09:06:31AM +0200, [email protected] wrote: > Hello > > FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE-p11 > CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2640 v3 @ 2.60GHz (2594.05-MHz K8-class CPU) > > sysctl hw.mds_disable was set to 3 (Automatic VERW or Software selection), > HT disabled in BIOS, and i install manually latest CPU microcode from > https://github.com/intel/Intel-Linux-Processor-Microcode-Data-Files/ > > I wonder why hw.mds_disable_state shows > hw.mds_disable_state: software Broadwell > instead VERW? > > sysctl hw.mds_disable=1 causes hw.mds_disable_state: VERW > > These automatic selection works correctly? No idea. How did you installed the microcode ? Was it loaded ? Show the dmesg output after the 'cpucontrol -e /dev/cpuctl0'. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"