Linus Torvalds said Intel’s Spectre And Meltdown Patches, “Garbage And Insane”

The father of Linux Mr. Linus Torvalds now on tech headlines due to their words against Intel’s Spectre And Meltdown Patches. Because he is not happy about the patches that Intel has developed to protect the Linux kernel from the Spectre and Linux flaws. For these patches, he criticised differences in the way and called it “Garbage And Insane”. If you don’t know about Spectre and Meltdown, these are design flaws in modern CPUs which could allow hackers to get around system protections on a wide range of PCs, servers, and smartphones, allowing attackers to access data including passwords.
According to Mr. Torvalds Torvalds, Intel has added redundant junk to the patch and made the entire thing optional. Administrators actually need to opt into the patch via a software flag when booting the system. Intel’s Meltdown patch is so inefficient that rolling it out universally would cause substantial performance hits. Microsoft also paused the distribution of it’s Meltdown and Spectre patches for certain AMD processors and gradually admitted to more vulnerability-related Windows slowdowns because the updates were causing fatal errors in some machines.
After at all Intel has responded to the comments from Torvalds and said
“We take the feedback of industry partners seriously. We are actively engaging with the Linux community, including Linus, as we seek to work together on solutions.”
It’s clear the industry as a whole has been racing to fix Meltdown and Spectre.