[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..

James Y Knight via Phabricator via llvm-commits llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org
Tue Jan 16 10:43:06 PST 2018


jyknight added a comment.

In https://reviews.llvm.org/D41723#977285, @chandlerc wrote:

> I'll look at implementing this, but I'm not super thrilled to change so much of the code at this point.


It seems potentially reasonable to me to commit as-is, and do that as a follow-on patch.


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