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From: giacomo@tesio.it (Giacomo Tesio)
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 10:57:17 +0100
Subject: [9fans] Spectre and Meltdown
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2018-01-10 17:59 GMT+01:00  <cinap_lenrek at felloff.net>:
> wait and see if all these scrambled together mitigations actually work.

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but the descriptions I read of the
mitigations taken in Linux for Meltdown (in particular kernel
page-table isolation) sound really familiar to my poor understanding
of how plan 9 and 9front already manage user memory.

As far as I can remember plan9 flush tables very often and clearly
separate kernel memory pages and user space memory.


So my dumb question is: are plan9/9front and friends actually
vulnerable to Meltdown?


Giacomo