r323155 - Introduce the "retpoline" x86 mitigation technique for variant #2 of the speculative execution vulnerabilities disclosed today, specifically identified by CVE-2017-5715, "Branch Target Injection", and is one of the two halves to Spectre..

[Chandler Carruth via cfe-commits]

Yeah, I'll write stuff up for them.

On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 3:06 AM Hans Wennborg <hans at chromium.org> wrote:

> Thanks! I've merged them to 6.0 as below and they will be part of rc2,
> scheduled for next week.
>
> Chandler, do you want to write release notes for this?
>
> On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 8:09 PM, Chandler Carruth <chandlerc at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > +Hans Wennborg +tstellar at redhat.com
> >
> > So the retpoline patch series we should get back ported start with this
> > revision and have two follow ups:
> > r323155
>
> Merged in r324067 (llvm), r324068 (cfe), r324069 (lld)
>
> > r323288
>
> Merged in r324070.
>
> > r323915
>
> Merged in r324071.
>
> >
> > +Reid Kleckner was going to look at doing the (likely more involved)
> > backport to the 5 branch....
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 2:06 PM Chandler Carruth via cfe-commits
> > <cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Author: chandlerc
> >> Date: Mon Jan 22 14:05:25 2018
> >> New Revision: 323155
> >>
> >> URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=323155&view=rev
> >> Log:
> >> Introduce the "retpoline" x86 mitigation technique for variant #2 of the
> >> speculative execution vulnerabilities disclosed today, specifically
> >> identified by CVE-2017-5715, "Branch Target Injection", and is one of
> the
> >> two halves to Spectre..
>
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