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Spectre Mitigations Being Worked On For BPF Programs
A 'request for comments' patch series sent out on Monday is working on Spectre mitigations for BPF programs using speculation barriers.
A "request for comments" patch series sent out on Monday is working on Spectre mitigations for BPF programs using speculation barriers. Luis Gerhorst sent out the set of nine patches this week that provides for inserting speculation barriers for mitigating Spectre Variant One. Luis presented last year at Linux Plumbers Conference on the concept of using speculation barriers for (e)BPF for mitigating Spectre.
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