[PATCH] D43643: [RFC] Sceptre a Spectre variant 1 detector

Ed Maste via Phabricator via llvm-commits llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org
Tue Feb 27 10:28:38 PST 2018


emaste added a comment.

In https://reviews.llvm.org/D43643#1016430, @efriedma wrote:

> Is the pass intentionally named "Sceptre"?  That's amusing, but kind of confusing.


I agree, the name is amusing but I worry about the similarity between spectre and sceptre.



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Comment at: include/llvm/Analysis/Passes.h:101-102
+  //
+  // createSceptrePass - This pass checks a program for Spectre variant 1
+  // exploits.
+  //
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Please reference CVE-2017-5753 in important comments along with "Spectre variant 1"


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