speed47 / spectre-meltdown-checker

Reptar, Downfall, Zenbleed, ZombieLoad, RIDL, Fallout, Foreshadow, Spectre, Meltdown vulnerability/mitigation checker for Linux & BSD
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Kernel mitigations being prepped for x86_64 staight-line speculation vulnerability #413

Open owlshrimp opened 2 years ago

owlshrimp commented 2 years ago

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GCC-12-Lands-SLS-Mitigation

Adding INT3 instructions after unconditional changes to control flow to block speculative threads that blow right past them.