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SubjectRe: STIBP by default.. Revert?
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> On Nov 18, 2018, at 2:17 PM, Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org> wrote:
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> It's probably not just browsers, but anything running JITed sandboxed
> code. So the most straightforward way might be the prctl() aproach, where
> userspace would claim "I do care about this, please fix it up for me". So
> prctl() + perhaps SECCOMP.

Yeah, the prctl() shifts the pain to the right place: folks explicitly opting in. Always-on seemed way too draconian to me.

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