Re: [PATCH] misc: enable retpolines across all xfsprogs utilities

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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?
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