Linux kernel patches “performance can be harmful” bug in video driver

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Feb 2, 2022 8:59 AM EDT
nakedsecurity.sophos.com; By Paul Ducklin
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Remember all those funkily named bugs of recent memory, such as Spectre, Meltdown, F**CKWIT and RAMbleed? Very loosely speaking, these types of bug – perhaps they’re better described as “performance costs” – are a side effect of the ever-increasing demand for ever-faster CPUs, especially now that the average computer or mobile phone has multiple processor chips, typically with multiple cores, or processing subunits, built into each chip.

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