On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 03:31:08PM -0600, Shanker Donthineni wrote: > Falkor is susceptible to branch predictor aliasing and can > theoretically be attacked by malicious code. This patch > implements a mitigation for these attacks, preventing any > malicious entries from affecting other victim contexts. > > Signed-off-by: Shanker Donthineni <[email protected]> > --- > Changes since v1: > Corrected typo to fix the compilation errors if HARDEN_BRANCH_PREDICTOR=n > > This patch requires FALKOR MIDR which is available in upstream v4.15-rc7 > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/arch/arm64?h=v4.15-rc7&id=c622cc013cece073722592cff1ac6643a33b1622 > ans also > attached this v2 patch series.
Please resend this as a fixup on top of for-next/core. It might make the most sense to queue that at -rc1, after the MIDR change has already landed in mainline. Will
