On 2/22/18 9:09 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 06:16:25PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote: >> From: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> >> >> Detect and enable retpolines for all code, to mitigate Spectre v2 >> (branch target injection) on x86. > > The mechanics look ok, but why do we really care for xfsprogs? > fs utilities seem like a lesser target and should just be covered > by hopefully sane compiler defaults, shouldn't they? > That's my feeling as well - does manually fixing one utility out of hundreds on the system help anything? Shouldn't this be done via toolchain or distro-package-build defaults? -Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-xfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
