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Commit 6c8825fc authored by Andrew Boie's avatar Andrew Boie Committed by Andrew Boie
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x86: mitigate L1 Terminal Fault vulnerability



During speculative execution, non-present pages are treated
as valid, which may expose their contents through side
channels.

Any non-present PTE will now have its address bits zeroed,
such that any speculative reads to them will go to the NULL
page.

The expected hit on performance is so minor that this is
enabled at all times.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Boie <andrew.p.boie@intel.com>
parent d51ee67c
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