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-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/srso.rst13
-rw-r--r--Documentation/netlink/specs/mptcp_pm.yaml4
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/srso.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/srso.rst
index 2ad1c05b8c88..66af95251a3d 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/srso.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/srso.rst
@@ -104,7 +104,20 @@ The possible values in this file are:
(spec_rstack_overflow=ibpb-vmexit)
+ * 'Mitigation: Reduced Speculation':
+ This mitigation gets automatically enabled when the above one "IBPB on
+ VMEXIT" has been selected and the CPU supports the BpSpecReduce bit.
+
+ It gets automatically enabled on machines which have the
+ SRSO_USER_KERNEL_NO=1 CPUID bit. In that case, the code logic is to switch
+ to the above =ibpb-vmexit mitigation because the user/kernel boundary is
+ not affected anymore and thus "safe RET" is not needed.
+
+ After enabling the IBPB on VMEXIT mitigation option, the BpSpecReduce bit
+ is detected (functionality present on all such machines) and that
+ practically overrides IBPB on VMEXIT as it has a lot less performance
+ impact and takes care of the guest->host attack vector too.
In order to exploit vulnerability, an attacker needs to:
diff --git a/Documentation/netlink/specs/mptcp_pm.yaml b/Documentation/netlink/specs/mptcp_pm.yaml
index 7e295bad8b29..a670a9bbe01b 100644
--- a/Documentation/netlink/specs/mptcp_pm.yaml
+++ b/Documentation/netlink/specs/mptcp_pm.yaml
@@ -28,13 +28,13 @@ definitions:
traffic-patterns it can take a long time until the
MPTCP_EVENT_ESTABLISHED is sent.
Attributes: token, family, saddr4 | saddr6, daddr4 | daddr6, sport,
- dport, server-side.
+ dport, server-side, [flags].
-
name: established
doc: >-
A MPTCP connection is established (can start new subflows).
Attributes: token, family, saddr4 | saddr6, daddr4 | daddr6, sport,
- dport, server-side.
+ dport, server-side, [flags].
-
name: closed
doc: >-