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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Attack Vector Controls Land In Linux 6.17 To Better Control CPU Security Mitigations (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 1 month ago by KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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[–] ravenaspiring@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago

The Attack Vector Controls work is now in Linux 6.17 for those new tuning knobs worked on by AMD engineer David Kaplan to make it more straight-forward for Linux server administrators and power users to more easily select the CPU security mitigations relevant to their system(s) and intended workloads

Title makes more sense in context of the first couple paragraphs.

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Title make little sense to me.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A lot of the security fixes since spectre have focused on exploiting speculative execution (a key CPU performance feature) to cross security boundaries. Defeating speculative execution when switching from user to kernel space (for example) adds a lot of overhead.

The new kernel add controls so that machines that don't need to worry about these exploits to disable the performance killing fixes.

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I get the concept. Title is written so badly that's really unreadable make no sense and confuses even people who know a bit on the subject.

The word "land" should be relaces, because it stck with controls and lose its meaning. Also, repeating control again adds to the mess.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago

Agreed. The headline is terrible. Headline Case Doesn't Help Either.