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SubjectRe: [PATCH 00/18] prevent bounds-check bypass via speculative execution
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> It sounds like Coverity was used to produce these patches? If so, is
> there a plan to have smatch (hey Dan) or other open source static
> analysis tool be possibly enhanced to do a similar type of work?

I'd love for that to happen; the tricky part is being able to have even a
sort of sensible concept of "trusted" vs "untrusted" value...

if you look at a very small window of code, that does not work well;
you likely need to even look (as tool) across .c file boundaries


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