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Docs and resources on CPU Speculative Execution bugs

5 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 2 stories, 3 comments · first 2018-01-05 · latest 2018-01-12

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  1. …that retpoline is not bulletproof and the kernel's performance-killing patches are still needed https://github.com/marcan/speculation-bugs/blob/master/READM... http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1801.0/03137.html Does it mean that…
    comment by sandGorgon · 2018-01-12 · in Protecting Google Cloud customers without impacting performance
  2. …where even ret may predict from the indirect branch predictor as a fallback; those need IBRS". https://github.com/marcan/speculation-bugs/blob/master/READM... What gives?
    comment by stefanha · 2018-01-11 · in Protecting Google Cloud customers without impacting performance
  3. …(Meltdown is CVE-2017-5754 and is responsible for Variant 3 and Variant 3a). See also https://github.com/marcan/speculation-bugs/blob/master/READM... which tries to summarize every known attack/platform/mitigation.
    comment by gmartres · 2018-01-05 · in About speculative execution vulnerabilities in ARM-based and Intel CPUs