[PATCH 0/5] x86: CVE-2017-5715, aka Spectre

[Florian Weimer]

* David Woodhouse:

>> Do you assume that you will eventually apply run-time patching to
>> thunks (in case they aren't needed)?
>
> "eventually"? We've been doing it for weeks. We are desperate to
> release the kernel.... when can we have agreement on at *least* the
> command line option and the name of the thunk? Internal implementation
> details we really don't care about, but those we do.

Thanks.  Are you content with patching just the thunk, or would you
prefer patching the control transfer to it, too?