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

[David Woodhouse]

On Sun, 2018-01-14 at 13:07 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 1:02 PM, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:
> > Review on the GCC patches has led to a request that the thunk symbols
> > be changed from e.g. __x86_indirect_thunk_rax to
> > __x86_indirect_thunk_ax without the 'r'.
> 
> Ok. I think that just makes it easier for us, since then the names are
> independent of 32-vs/64, and we don't need to use the _ASM_XY names.
> 
> What about r8-r15? I'm assuming 'r' there is used?
> 
> Mind sending me a tested patch? I'll was indeed planning on generating
> rc8, but I might as well go grocery shopping now instead, and do rc8
> later in the evening.

I'll kick off a compiler build now...
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