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@@ -2701,6 +2701,15 @@ config MITIGATION_TSA
security vulnerability on AMD CPUs which can lead to forwarding of
invalid info to subsequent instructions and thus can affect their
timing and thereby cause a leakage.
+
+config MITIGATION_VMSCAPE
+ bool "Mitigate VMSCAPE"
+ depends on KVM
+ default y
+ help
+ Enable mitigation for VMSCAPE attacks. VMSCAPE is a hardware security
+ vulnerability on Intel and AMD CPUs that may allow a guest to do
+ Spectre v2 style attacks on userspace hypervisor.
endif
config ARCH_HAS_ADD_PAGES