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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] x86/speculation: Provide application property based STIBP protection
On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 02:35:30PM -0700, Tim Chen wrote:
> This patch provides an application property based spectre_v2
> protection with STIBP against attack from another app from
> a sibling hyper-thread. For security sensitive non-dumpable
> app, STIBP will be turned on before switching to it for Intel
> processors vulnerable to spectre_v2.

Why does that non dumpable thing make sense? Why not use the same
prctl() we already use for SSBD?

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