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From:   =?ISO-8859-1?Q?R=E9mi?= Denis-Courmont <remi@remlab.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] phonet: af_phonet: Fix Spectre v1 vulnerability
Date:   Sat, 22 Dec 2018 11:35:18 +0200
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Le vendredi 21 d?cembre 2018, 23:41:17 EET Gustavo A. R. Silva a ?crit :
> protocol is indirectly controlled by user-space, hence leading to
> a potential exploitation of the Spectre variant 1 vulnerability.

No objections but AFAIR, only privileged userspace can trigger that code so 
the impact is kinda limited.

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R?mi Denis-Courmont