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Documentation: Move L1TF to separate directory 

commit 65fd4cb65b upstream.

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>
[bwh: Backported to 4.9: adjust filenames, context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Thomas Gleixner 2019-02-19 11:10:49 +01:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 81ea109a9b
commit cb106035bd
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@ -371,7 +371,7 @@ Description: Information about CPU vulnerabilities
"Mitigation: $M" CPU is affected and mitigation $M is in effect
Details about the l1tf file can be found in
Documentation/admin-guide/l1tf.rst
Documentation/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/smt
/sys/devices/system/cpu/smt/active

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========================
Hardware vulnerabilities
========================
This section describes CPU vulnerabilities and provides an overview of the
possible mitigations along with guidance for selecting mitigations if they
are configurable at compile, boot or run time.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
l1tf

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Documentation/index.rst
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@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ Contents:
:maxdepth: 2
kernel-documentation
l1tf
development-process/index
dev-tools/tools
driver-api/index
@ -20,6 +19,13 @@ Contents:
gpu/index
80211/index
This section describes CPU vulnerabilities and their mitigations.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
hw-vuln/index
Architecture-specific documentation
-----------------------------------

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Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
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@ -2082,7 +2082,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
Default is 'flush'.
For details see: Documentation/admin-guide/l1tf.rst
For details see: Documentation/hw-vuln/l1tf.rst
l2cr= [PPC]

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arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
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@ -1097,7 +1097,7 @@ static void __init l1tf_select_mitigation(void)
pr_info("You may make it effective by booting the kernel with mem=%llu parameter.\n",
half_pa);
pr_info("However, doing so will make a part of your RAM unusable.\n");
pr_info("Reading https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/l1tf.html might help you decide.\n");
pr_info("Reading https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.html might help you decide.\n");
return;
}

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arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
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@ -9569,8 +9569,8 @@ free_vcpu:
return ERR_PTR(err);
}
#define L1TF_MSG_SMT "L1TF CPU bug present and SMT on, data leak possible. See CVE-2018-3646 and https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/l1tf.html for details.\n"
#define L1TF_MSG_L1D "L1TF CPU bug present and virtualization mitigation disabled, data leak possible. See CVE-2018-3646 and https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/l1tf.html for details.\n"
#define L1TF_MSG_SMT "L1TF CPU bug present and SMT on, data leak possible. See CVE-2018-3646 and https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.html for details.\n"
#define L1TF_MSG_L1D "L1TF CPU bug present and virtualization mitigation disabled, data leak possible. See CVE-2018-3646 and https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/hw-vuln/l1tf.html for details.\n"
static int vmx_vm_init(struct kvm *kvm)
{