cost/benefit of some src.conf options

Andrea Venturoli ml at netfence.it
Sat Mar 27 20:59:15 UTC 2021


On 3/26/21 10:35 PM, Chris wrote:

> My understanding is that retpoline is really only of interest if your 
> box might
> accessed *locally* by *untrusted* individuals.

Thanks.

Does an user on a guest VM qualifies as *untrusted*?
Or does a closed-source software on such VM?

In any case, if RETpoline is so, then is IBRS.
The comparison would still be interesting to me.


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