Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 4 Jun 2018 11:15:09 +0200 | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Subject | Re: Spectre mitigation doesn't seem to work at all?! |
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On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 10:50:07AM +0200, Andreas Hartmann wrote:
> Ok, this means every program running on the machine has to care itself > to be spectre v1 - safe.
Correct. Compiler and static analyser teams are looking hard at this to help.
> A malicious program most probably won't care about that. Therefore, my > next question is: which memory regions can be exploited by a malicious > program? The complete physical memory or only the memory provided to the > malicious program? Should be the latter if this approach should have any > impact.
It affects the virtual memory of the target process.
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