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authorH.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>2020-03-11 09:56:17 -0700
committerH.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>2020-03-11 09:57:35 -0700
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NEWS: Mention x86 assembler options for CVE-2020-0551
* NEWS: Mention x86 assembler options for CVE-2020-0551.
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2020-03-11 H.J. Lu <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
+ * NEWS: Mention x86 assembler options for CVE-2020-0551.
+
+2020-03-11 H.J. Lu <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
+
* testsuite/gas/i386/i386.exp: Run new tests.
* testsuite/gas/i386/lfence-byte.d: New file.
* testsuite/gas/i386/lfence-byte.e: Likewise.
diff --git a/gas/NEWS b/gas/NEWS
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-*- 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.