| Date | Mon, 8 Jan 2018 11:01:41 +0100 (CET) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v6 00/10] Retpoline: Avoid speculative indirect calls in kernel |
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On Sun, 7 Jan 2018, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 7, 2018 at 2:11 PM, David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk> wrote: > > This is a mitigation for the 'variant 2' attack described in > > https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2018/01/reading-privileged-memory-with-side.html > > Ok, I don't love the patches, but I see nothing horribly wrong here > either, and I assume the performance impact of this is pretty minimal. > > Thomas? I'm obviously doing rc7 today without these, but I assume the > x86 maintainers are resigned to this all.
That seems to be the general mental state for lots of involved people.
Thanks,
tglx
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