Re: [PATCH v8 04/12] x86/spectre: Add boot time option to select Spectre v2 mitigation

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Wed Jan 24 2018 - 04:58:16 EST


On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 11:32:00AM +1100, Kees Cook wrote:
> I've wanted this for a while (especially for the coming detected
> support for stack protector). Having more than just the clfags is, I
> think, important. We'd likely want to record the entire environment
> (compiler version, linker version, flags on both, etc).

... which makes me think of /proc/config.gz

Can we do something like that here too?

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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