More Spectre Variant Two Patches Queued For The Linux Kernel
In Summary : Besides the Spectre V2 userspace-userspace mitigation patches revised and sent out earlier today, some related Spectre V2 c...
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In Summary :
Besides the Spectre V2 userspace-userspace mitigation patches revised and sent out earlier today, some related Spectre V2 changes are now queued for soon merging to the mainline Linux kernel.
Thomas Gleixner has queued a few new patches today in his x86/pti tree for soon calling upon Linus/Greg for merging into the mainline kernel. The two patches worth noting include more strict Indirect Branch Predictor Barrier (IBPB) to prevent possible cross-process leakage [...]
kindly refer the following link as follow up :
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=More-Spectre-V2-SMT-IBPB-Leaks
Besides the Spectre V2 userspace-userspace mitigation patches revised and sent out earlier today, some related Spectre V2 changes are now queued for soon merging to the mainline Linux kernel.
Thomas Gleixner has queued a few new patches today in his x86/pti tree for soon calling upon Linus/Greg for merging into the mainline kernel. The two patches worth noting include more strict Indirect Branch Predictor Barrier (IBPB) to prevent possible cross-process leakage [...]
kindly refer the following link as follow up :
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=More-Spectre-V2-SMT-IBPB-Leaks
