Jeez, I hope it did not require “security hardening” for Nvidia to do something this basic. If these other vendors missed some tiny corner resulting in state leakage, that would be understandable. But, forgetting to clear local memory is just inexcusable.
Imagine a OS forgetting to replace your general purpose registers across context switches. Only a rank incompetent and useless security process would let something like that get all the way through to deployment.
Vendors have consistently ignored multi tenant issues when coding because gaming doesn’t need it and cloud traditionally hasn’t used GPUs all that much.
You’d be surprised by how many security issues exist in GPU drivers
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Jeez, I hope it did not require “security hardening” for Nvidia to do something this basic. If these other vendors missed some tiny corner resulting in state leakage, that would be understandable. But, forgetting to clear local memory is just inexcusable.
Imagine a OS forgetting to replace your general purpose registers across context switches. Only a rank incompetent and useless security process would let something like that get all the way through to deployment.
Vendors have consistently ignored multi tenant issues when coding because gaming doesn’t need it and cloud traditionally hasn’t used GPUs all that much.
You’d be surprised by how many security issues exist in GPU drivers