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Initial Spectre variant 1 patches

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Cover letter [PATCH 0/3] Initial Spectre variant 1 patches
Quoted 9 lines · Russell King - ARM Linux

Hi,

This series adds initial support for the Spectre variant 1 workarounds to the kernel. This does _not_ cover the user accessors, which are still in development.

The series adds support for the array_index_mask_nospec() macro, used by generic kernel code to mask out of bounds pointers, and also adds the syscall table hardening.

For the series including v2 patch of 3/3: