Re: Avoid speculative indirect calls in kernel

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 4:12 PM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> It should be a CPU_BUG bit as we have for the other mess. And that can be
> used for patching.

That would definitely be the right approach.

However, that's also probably quite challenging for the gcc option.

              Linus