From 9e8f1c9000fa42b68982ee69f622010a81656e81 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "H.J. Lu" Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2020 09:56:17 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] NEWS: Mention x86 assembler options for CVE-2020-0551 * NEWS: Mention x86 assembler options for CVE-2020-0551. --- gas/ChangeLog | 4 ++++ gas/NEWS | 4 ++++ 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/gas/ChangeLog b/gas/ChangeLog index a134be95fc3..e6b3207a98f 100644 --- a/gas/ChangeLog +++ b/gas/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2020-03-11 H.J. Lu + + * NEWS: Mention x86 assembler options for CVE-2020-0551. + 2020-03-11 H.J. Lu * testsuite/gas/i386/i386.exp: Run new tests. diff --git a/gas/NEWS b/gas/NEWS index 5623db64357..9bbeaeb8c59 100644 --- a/gas/NEWS +++ b/gas/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,9 @@ -*- text -*- +* Add -mlfence-after-load=, -mlfence-before-indirect-branch= and + -mlfence-before-ret= options to x86 assembler to help mitigate + CVE-2020-0551. + * Add --gdwarf-5 option to the assembler to generate DWARF 5 debug output (if such output is being generated). Added the ability to generate version 5 .debug_line sections. -- 2.30.2