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[$] Taming STIBP
Thursday November 29, 2018. 05:11 PM , from LWN.net
The Spectre class of hardware vulnerabilities was apparently so-named
because it can be expected to haunt us for some time. One aspect of that haunting can be seen in the fact that, nearly one year after Spectre was disclosed, the kernel is still unable to prevent one user-space process from attacking another in some situations. An attempt to provide that protection using a new x86 microcode feature called STIBP has run into trouble once its performance impact was understood; now a more nuanced approach may succeed in providing protection where it is needed without slowing down everybody else.
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