Thread (9 messages) 9 messages, 3 authors, 2018-08-13

Re: [PATCH 0/2] net: socket: Fix potential spectre v1 gadgets

From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2018-07-29 05:45:08
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From: Jeremy Cline <redacted>
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2018 22:43:00 +0000
This fixes a pair of potential spectre v1 gadgets.

Note that because the speculation window is large, the policy is to stop
the speculative out-of-bounds load and not worry if the attack can be
completed with a dependent load or store[0].

[0] https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=152449131114778
Series applied, thank you.
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