Author :
deraadt
Date :
2020-03-13 09:31:24
Hash :f74a2b77 Message :Anthony Steinhauser reports that 32-bit arm cpus have the same speculation
problems as 64-bit models. To resolve the syscall speculation, as a first
step "nop; nop" was added after all occurances of the syscall ("swi 0")
instruction. Then the kernel was changed to jump over the 2 extra instructions.
In this final step, those pair of nops are converted into the speculation-blocking
sequence ("dsb nsh; isb").
Don't try to build through these multiple steps, use a snapshot instead.
Packages matching the new ABI will be out in a while...
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