Re:Spectre mitigations murder userspace performance
by pjmlp on Saturday June 19, 2021 @05:20PM
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How would Spectre exploit UNIX message boxes then?
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Re:Spectre mitigations murder userspace performance
by msbarnett on Saturday June 19, 2021 @05:30PM
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Multiple Spectre variants (RDCL, RSRR, Lazy FP state restore, SpectreRSB) bypass process boundaries. It doesn’t matter what IPC mechanism you use, they can read arbitrary privileged memory no matter who owns it.
IPC really has nothing to do with anything, Spectre-wise; you don’t have to be using any IPC mechanism in either the attacker or attackee process to be vulnerable to these variants.