On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 6:52 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torva...@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> The fact is, we have to stop speculating when access_ok() does *not*
> fail - because that's when we'll actually do the access. And it's that
> access that needs to be non-speculative.
I also suspect we should probably do this entirely differently.
Maybe the whole lfence can be part of uaccess_begin() instead (ie
currently 'stac()'). That would fit the existing structure better, I
think. And it would avoid any confusion about the whole "when to stop
speculation".
Linus
