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List:       openssh-unix-dev
Subject:    Re: Concerns about enabling retpolines by default
From:       Darren Tucker <dtucker () dtucker ! net>
Date:       2018-10-17 10:00:59
Message-ID: CALDDTe3nZsWmc7p2_41NoOLYULRQwnONVrT2diN5dW7GwkMq0w () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 15 October 2018 at 19:37, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
[...]
> Our internal recommendation is: do nothing.  Userspace appears unfixable
> without hardware support.

Thanks for bringing this to our attention.  Based on this feedback and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f7O3IfIR2k we have removed the gcc
retpoline flags from configure.  At this time the clang mitigation
flags are still enabled if supported.

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