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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>, xfs <linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] misc: enable retpolines across all xfsprogs utilities
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 07:09:22 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180222150922.GA26282@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180222021625.GA9827@magnolia>

On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 06:16:25PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> From: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
> 
> Detect and enable retpolines for all code, to mitigate Spectre v2
> (branch target injection) on x86.

The mechanics look ok, but why do we really care for xfsprogs?
fs utilities seem like a lesser target and should just be covered
by hopefully sane compiler defaults, shouldn't they?

  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-22 15:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-22  2:16 [PATCH] misc: enable retpolines across all xfsprogs utilities Darrick J. Wong
2018-02-22 15:09 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2018-02-22 15:31   ` Eric Sandeen
2018-02-22 17:15     ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-02-22 21:10       ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2018-02-22 23:57         ` Dave Chinner

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