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    arm64: entry: Place an SB sequence following an ERET instruction · 679db708
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    Some CPUs can speculate past an ERET instruction and potentially perform
    speculative accesses to memory before processing the exception return.
    Since the register state is often controlled by a lower privilege level
    at the point of an ERET, this could potentially be used as part of a
    side-channel attack.
    
    This patch emits an SB sequence after each ERET so that speculation is
    held up on exception return.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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