DragonFlyBSD Gets Better Hardened Against CPU Speculative Execution Bugs

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DragonFlyBSD Gets Better Hardened Against CPU Speculative Execution Bugs

12 June 2018, 05:50 AM

Phoronix: DragonFlyBSD Gets Better Hardened Against CPU Speculative Execution Bugs

While the DragonFlyBSD kernel has already landed its mitigation for Spectre V1/V2 and Meltdown CPU vulnerabilities, a fresh round of CPU bug hardening work was just merged into their kernel...

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12 June 2018, 12:04 PM

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that the contents of floating poiunt register

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Intel hasn't communicated clarly over this FP register speculation,

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The fix for that patch is clearing all user registeres after

(were you sleepwalking, erm, sleepwritingarticles?)
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