x86: mitigate swapgs Spectre V1 attacks
See CVE-2019-1125. We mitigate this by adding an 'lfence'
upon interrupt/exception entry after the decision has been
made whether it's necessary to invoke 'swapgs' or not.
Only applies to x86_64, 32-bit doesn't use swapgs.
Signed-off-by:
Andrew Boie <andrew.p.boie@intel.com>
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