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Date:   Thu, 14 Jul 2022 11:01:12 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org>
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        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
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Subject: Re: RETBleed: WARNING: Spectre v2 mitigation leaves CPU vulnerable
 to RETBleed attacks, data leaks possible!
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On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 02:15:07PM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> Results from Linaro’s test farm.
> 
> We are booting the i386 kernel on an x86 machine.
> With Spectre V2 patches merged into Linux mainline we have been noticing
> RETBleed: WARNING: Spectre v2 mitigation leaves CPU vulnerable to
> RETBleed attacks, data leaks possible!

That's funny.  I don't think that's a valid combination that should be
cared about, but I'll leave it to Pawan to comment if it is something
that is "real" to be concerned for.

thanks,

greg k-h