These patches inhibit spectre-v1-write gadgets found in arch/arm64, using the same mitigation applied to existing spectre-v1-read gadgets. This issue is also known as CVE-2018-3693, or "bounds check bypass store". More details can be found in the Arm Cache Speculation Side-channels whitepaper, available from the Arm security updates site [1]. Thanks, Mark. [1] https://developer.arm.com/support/arm-security-updates/speculative-processor-vulnerability Mark Rutland (2): arm64: fix possible spectre-v1 write in ptrace_hbp_set_event() KVM: arm/arm64: vgic: fix possible spectre-v1 write in vgic_mmio_write_apr() arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c | 19 +++++++++++-------- virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-mmio-v2.c | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) -- 2.11.0 _______________________________________________ kvmarm mailing list kvmarm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/kvmarm
