Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Nov 2023 21:39:47 +0000 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v6 10/13] x86/bugs: Rename RETHUNK to MITIGATION_RETHUNK | From | Andrew Cooper <> |
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On 21/11/2023 4:07 pm, Breno Leitao wrote: > CPU mitigations config entries are inconsistent, and names are hard to > related. There are concrete benefits for both users and developers of > having all the mitigation config options living in the same config > namespace. > > The mitigation options should have consistency and start with > MITIGATION. > > Rename the Kconfig entry from RETHUNK to MITIGATION_RETHUNK. > > Suggested-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org> > Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
(I'm CC'd on only this single patch so I can't see what's going on, but)
Really? Rethunk[sic] isn't a mitigation. It's just a compiler transformation for return instructions upon which various mitigations depend.
~Andrew
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