Re: [PATCH] phonet: af_phonet: Fix Spectre v1 vulnerability

From: Rémi Denis-Courmont
Date: Sat Dec 22 2018 - 14:02:28 EST


Le vendredi 21 décembre 2018, 23:41:17 EET Gustavo A. R. Silva a écrit :
> protocol is indirectly controlled by user-space, hence leading to
> a potential exploitation of the Spectre variant 1 vulnerability.

No objections but AFAIR, only privileged userspace can trigger that code so
the impact is kinda limited.

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Rémi Denis-Courmont