On Sat, Jan 13, 2018 at 10:51 AM, Linus Torvalds
wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 4:15 PM, Tony Luck wrote:
> So your argument depends on "the uarch will actually run the code in
> order if there are no events that block the pipeline".
And might be bogus ... I'm a soft
On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 5:19 PM, Linus Torvalds
wrote:
> Should the array access in entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath be made to use
> the masking approach?
That one has a bounds check for an inline constant.
cmpq$__NR_syscall_max, %rax
so should be safe.
The classic Spectre variant #1 code s