Re: Avoid speculative indirect calls in kernel

[Woodhouse, David]

On Thu, 2018-01-04 at 07:53 -0800, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> I remove that because what you're testing for doesn't exist in the
> tree yet.Â
> 
> Yes it can be added later.
> 
> Right now we just want a basic static version to work reliably.

But it doesn't. You can't protect VMs from each other, or userspace
processes from each other, without IBPB. And you really ought to be
setting IBRS before calling any runtime firmware APIs too.

So we really do need to add the microcode support on top right away,
even if we refactor the series to put retpoline first.

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