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David Woodhouse dcd4311d0e x86/spectre: Add boot time option to select Spectre v2 mitigation
commit da28512156 upstream.

Add a spectre_v2= option to select the mitigation used for the indirect
branch speculation vulnerability.

Currently, the only option available is retpoline, in its various forms.
This will be expanded to cover the new IBRS/IBPB microcode features.

The RETPOLINE_AMD feature relies on a serializing LFENCE for speculation
control. For AMD hardware, only set RETPOLINE_AMD if LFENCE is a
serializing instruction, which is indicated by the LFENCE_RDTSC feature.

[ tglx: Folded back the LFENCE/AMD fixes and reworked it so IBRS
  	integration becomes simple ]

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: thomas.lendacky@amd.com
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@google.com>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1515707194-20531-5-git-send-email-dwmw@amazon.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-01-17 09:45:29 +01:00
Documentation x86/spectre: Add boot time option to select Spectre v2 mitigation 2018-01-17 09:45:29 +01:00
arch x86/spectre: Add boot time option to select Spectre v2 mitigation 2018-01-17 09:45:29 +01:00
block block: don't let passthrough IO go into .make_request_fn() 2018-01-02 20:31:05 +01:00
certs License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
crypto crypto: algapi - fix NULL dereference in crypto_remove_spawns() 2018-01-17 09:45:23 +01:00
drivers sysfs/cpu: Add vulnerability folder 2018-01-17 09:45:27 +01:00
firmware License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
fs x86 / CPU: Always show current CPU frequency in /proc/cpuinfo 2018-01-10 09:31:20 +01:00
include sysfs/cpu: Add vulnerability folder 2018-01-17 09:45:27 +01:00
init x86/mm/pti: Add infrastructure for page table isolation 2018-01-02 20:30:56 +01:00
ipc License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
kernel kdump: write correct address of mem_section into vmcoreinfo 2018-01-17 09:45:27 +01:00
lib x86/unwind: Rename unwinder config options to 'CONFIG_UNWINDER_*' 2017-12-25 14:26:13 +01:00
mm mm/sparse.c: wrong allocation for mem_section 2018-01-10 09:31:17 +01:00
net Bluetooth: Prevent stack info leak from the EFS element. 2018-01-17 09:45:26 +01:00
samples samples/bpf: adjust rlimit RLIMIT_MEMLOCK for xdp1 2017-12-20 10:10:31 +01:00
scripts linux/compiler.h: Split into compiler.h and compiler_types.h 2017-12-25 14:26:33 +01:00
security apparmor: fix ptrace label match when matching stacked labels 2018-01-17 09:45:27 +01:00
sound ALSA: aloop: Fix racy hw constraints adjustment 2018-01-17 09:45:20 +01:00
tools objtool: Allow alternatives to be ignored 2018-01-17 09:45:28 +01:00
usr initramfs: fix initramfs rebuilds w/ compression after disabling 2017-11-03 07:39:19 -07:00
virt KVM: Fix stack-out-of-bounds read in write_mmio 2018-01-17 09:45:17 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
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.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore kbuild: Add support to generate LLVM assembly files 2017-04-25 08:13:52 +09:00
.mailmap .mailmap: Add Maciej W. Rozycki's Imagination e-mail address 2017-11-10 12:16:15 -08:00
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CREDITS MAINTAINERS: update TPM driver infrastructure changes 2017-11-09 17:58:40 -08:00
Kbuild License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
Kconfig License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2017-11-09 18:26:51 -08:00
Makefile Linux 4.14.13 2018-01-10 09:31:23 +01:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

README

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.