[PATCH 0/7] arm64: move literal data into .rodata section

Herbert Xu herbert at gondor.apana.org.au
Thu Jan 18 03:41:12 PST 2018


On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 12:11:35PM +0000, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> Prevent inadvertently creating speculative gadgets by moving literal data
> into the .rodata section.
> 
> Patch #1 enables this for C code, by reverting a change that disables the
> GCC feature implementing this. Note that this conflicts with the mitigation
> of erratum #843419 for Cortex-A53.

Ard, which tree is this supposed to go through?

Thanks,
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