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On 02/02/18 13:19, Mick wrote: |
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> Anyway, as I understand it, we'll have to wait for gcc-8.1 in March, which |
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> utilises 'gcc -mindirect-branch=thunk-extern' to get the benefit of the |
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> retpoline kernel patch. |
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No. You get that with GCC 7.3 already, which is in portage now. |
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>> However, improvements to these mitigations will from now on happen for |
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>> kernel 4.16 first and backported later. 4.16 for example got mitigations |
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>> for ARM. It's how kernel upstream works; new stuff is done in the |
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>> current development version, and backported later to still supported |
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>> versions. |
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> Spectre_v1 still shown as vulnerable on both Intel and AMD. Is there a fix |
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> planned for this? |
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I don't know, but it would be surprising if there wasn't. |
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