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-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/srso.rst | 13 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/netlink/specs/mptcp_pm.yaml | 4 |
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: >- |