[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..

Matthias Braun via Phabricator via llvm-commits llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org
Mon Jan 8 13:21:02 PST 2018


MatzeB added inline comments.


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Comment at: llvm/lib/Target/X86/X86RetpolineThunks.cpp:82-83
+
+  if (skipModule(M))
+    return false;
+
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We need this pass for "correctness" and should never skip it I think.


https://reviews.llvm.org/D41723





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