Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 8 Jan 2018 22:10:49 +0100 (CET) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v6 00/10] Retpoline: Avoid speculative indirect calls in kernel |
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On Mon, 8 Jan 2018, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 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. And yes, we'll have at least > > an rc8 this release.. > > I'm definitely resigned to them, and with these patches being disclosed so late > we don't have any good choices left, so a tentative: > > Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Just doing the last polishing on that. I'll add your ack
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