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2020-04-20x86/speculation: Add SRBDS vulnerability and mitigation documentationMark Gross
Add documentation for the SRBDS vulnerability and its mitigation. [ bp: Massage. jpoimboe: sysfs table strings. ] Signed-off-by: Mark Gross <mgross@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
2019-11-04Documentation: Add ITLB_MULTIHIT documentationGomez Iglesias, Antonio
Add the initial ITLB_MULTIHIT documentation. [ tglx: Add it to the index so it gets actually built. ] Signed-off-by: Antonio Gomez Iglesias <antonio.gomez.iglesias@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Nelson D'Souza <nelson.dsouza@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2019-10-28x86/speculation/taa: Add documentation for TSX Async AbortPawan Gupta
Add the documenation for TSX Async Abort. Include the description of the issue, how to check the mitigation state, control the mitigation, guidance for system administrators. [ bp: Add proper SPDX tags, touch ups by Josh and me. ] Co-developed-by: Antonio Gomez Iglesias <antonio.gomez.iglesias@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Antonio Gomez Iglesias <antonio.gomez.iglesias@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Mark Gross <mgross@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
2019-06-26Documentation: Add section about CPU vulnerabilities for SpectreTim Chen
Add documentation for Spectre vulnerability and the mitigation mechanisms: - Explain the problem and risks - Document the mitigation mechanisms - Document the command line controls - Document the sysfs files Co-developed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Co-developed-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-03-06Documentation: Add MDS vulnerability documentationThomas Gleixner
Add the initial MDS vulnerability documentation. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>
2019-03-06Documentation: Move L1TF to separate directoryThomas Gleixner
Move L!TF to a separate directory so the MDS stuff can be added at the side. Otherwise the all hardware vulnerabilites have their own top level entry. Should have done that right away. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>