From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "Woodhouse, David" <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [RFC 04/10] x86/mm: Only flush indirect branches when
 switching into non dumpable process
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2018 22:20:13 +0000
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        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
        "Andy Lutomirski" <luto@kernel.org>,
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        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
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On Sun, 2018-01-21 at 17:21 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>=20
> Because putting something like this into an ELF flag raises the question =
of who is=C2=A0
> allowed to set the flag - does a user-compiled binary count? If yes then =
it would=C2=A0
> be a trivial thing for local exploits to set the flag and turn off the ba=
rrier.

You can only allow *yourself* to be exploited that way. The flag says,
"I'm OK, you don't need to protect me".

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