[PATCH] D41723: 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 Phabricator via llvm-commits]

chandlerc added a comment.

In https://reviews.llvm.org/D41723#968046, @efriedma wrote:

> I had one comment I think got missed: there are some references to X86::CALL64r/X86::CALL64m in X86FrameLowering.cpp and X86MCInstLower.cpp which look like they could be relevant, but aren't addressed by this patch.


Sorry for failing to respond previously...

I've audited all of these. They should have already triggered a hard failure if we made it through ISel though. I've added explicit and more user-friendly fatal errors if we hit these cases.

The only really interesting cases are statepoints and patchpoints. The other cases are only relevant when in the large code model on x86-64 which is pretty much riddled with bugs already. =/


https://reviews.llvm.org/D41723