[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 llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org
Mon Jan 15 05:56:59 PST 2018


chandlerc added a comment.

Ok, I think this is all done. Rafael, I think I've implemented your suggestion as well and it still passes all my tests (including the test-suite) and a bunch of internal code I have.

Any last comments?



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


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https://reviews.llvm.org/D41723





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