On Thu, Jun 01, 2023 at 01:50:48AM +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote: > On 01/06/2023 1:42 am, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: > > So each LFENCE has a distinct purpose. That said, there are no indirect > > branches or unbalanced RETs between them. > > How lucky are you feeling? > > You're in C at this point, which means the compiler could have emitted a > call to mem{cpy,cmp}() in place of a simple assignment/comparison. But it's only unbalanced RETs we're concerned about, per Intel. -- Josh