| From: David Collier-Brown via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | On 09/01/18 12:23 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: | > In fact, the first news broke because an AMD patch to the kernel | > spilled the beans. The AMD patch turned off the already present | > mitigation for Meltdown in the case of AMD processors. | > - | | Erk! Can you point us to a description this? It seem slightly pessimal (;-)) I think that this posting to the Linux Kernel Mailing List is considered to have let the cat out of the bag for Meltdown. <https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/12/27/2> The problem had been "responsibly disclosed" about half a year before to folks considered responsible (i.e. not us). I'm not 100% comfortable with "responsible disclosure". Especially with half a year lead time.