Re: [RFC 10/10] x86/enter: Use IBRS on syscall and interrupts

From: KarimAllah Ahmed
Date: Sun Jan 21 2018 - 09:41:12 EST


On 01/21/2018 02:50 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:

On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 08:23:01PM +0100, KarimAllah Ahmed wrote:
From: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Stop Indirect Branch Speculation on every user space to kernel space
transition and reenable it when returning to user space./
How about interrupts?

That is should .macro interrupt have the same treatment?

RESTRICT_IB_SPEC is called in switch_to_thread_stack which is almost the first thing called from ".macro interrupt".



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