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by devy 3953 days ago
10.10.5 kernel panic too. https://gist.github.com/anonymous/6a76b0793607c890c3ea
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You are not vulnerable since you have SMAP!
what's SMAP? can't find info anywhere. edit: ok, found, cpu security feature. so it's possible this issue is mitigated on newer CPUs?
well, this bug is a null pointer deference. smap is like -no_shared_cr3, but without the performance loss.