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AMD Posts New Linux Mitigation Handling For SRSO/Inception


AMD Linux engineer Borislav Petkov kicked off the new week by volleying a patch for adjusting the Speculative Return Stack Overflow (SRSO, a.k.a

AMD Linux engineer Borislav Petkov kicked off the new week by volleying a patch for adjusting the Speculative Return Stack Overflow (SRSO, a.k.a. "Inception") vulnerability mitigation handling for capabilities to be found with affected processors running on newer CPU microcode. While AMD Zen 5 on Linux has been reporting "not affected" to the SRSO/Inception vulnerability today's kernel patch may help better control the SRSO mitigation for prior Ryzen and EPYC CPUs.

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