From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] net: socket: Fix potential spectre v1 gadgets Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2018 22:45:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20180728.224501.542504602498362367.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20180727224302.5503-1-jcline@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jpoimboe@redhat.com To: jcline@redhat.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.9]:33636 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726196AbeG2HOQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Jul 2018 03:14:16 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20180727224302.5503-1-jcline@redhat.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Jeremy Cline Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2018 22:43:00 +0000 > This fixes a pair of potential spectre v1 gadgets. > > Note that because the speculation window is large, the policy is to stop > the speculative out-of-bounds load and not worry if the attack can be > completed with a dependent load or store[0]. > > [0] https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=152449131114778 Series applied, thank you.