linux/Documentation
Linus Torvalds fa4bff1650 Merge branch 'x86-mds-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 MDS mitigations from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) is a hardware vulnerability
  which allows unprivileged speculative access to data which is
  available in various CPU internal buffers. This new set of misfeatures
  has the following CVEs assigned:

     CVE-2018-12126  MSBDS  Microarchitectural Store Buffer Data Sampling
     CVE-2018-12130  MFBDS  Microarchitectural Fill Buffer Data Sampling
     CVE-2018-12127  MLPDS  Microarchitectural Load Port Data Sampling
     CVE-2019-11091  MDSUM  Microarchitectural Data Sampling Uncacheable Memory

  MDS attacks target microarchitectural buffers which speculatively
  forward data under certain conditions. Disclosure gadgets can expose
  this data via cache side channels.

  Contrary to other speculation based vulnerabilities the MDS
  vulnerability does not allow the attacker to control the memory target
  address. As a consequence the attacks are purely sampling based, but
  as demonstrated with the TLBleed attack samples can be postprocessed
  successfully.

  The mitigation is to flush the microarchitectural buffers on return to
  user space and before entering a VM. It's bolted on the VERW
  instruction and requires a microcode update. As some of the attacks
  exploit data structures shared between hyperthreads, full protection
  requires to disable hyperthreading. The kernel does not do that by
  default to avoid breaking unattended updates.

  The mitigation set comes with documentation for administrators and a
  deeper technical view"

* 'x86-mds-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (23 commits)
  x86/speculation/mds: Fix documentation typo
  Documentation: Correct the possible MDS sysfs values
  x86/mds: Add MDSUM variant to the MDS documentation
  x86/speculation/mds: Add 'mitigations=' support for MDS
  x86/speculation/mds: Print SMT vulnerable on MSBDS with mitigations off
  x86/speculation/mds: Fix comment
  x86/speculation/mds: Add SMT warning message
  x86/speculation: Move arch_smt_update() call to after mitigation decisions
  x86/speculation/mds: Add mds=full,nosmt cmdline option
  Documentation: Add MDS vulnerability documentation
  Documentation: Move L1TF to separate directory
  x86/speculation/mds: Add mitigation mode VMWERV
  x86/speculation/mds: Add sysfs reporting for MDS
  x86/speculation/mds: Add mitigation control for MDS
  x86/speculation/mds: Conditionally clear CPU buffers on idle entry
  x86/kvm/vmx: Add MDS protection when L1D Flush is not active
  x86/speculation/mds: Clear CPU buffers on exit to user
  x86/speculation/mds: Add mds_clear_cpu_buffers()
  x86/kvm: Expose X86_FEATURE_MD_CLEAR to guests
  x86/speculation/mds: Add BUG_MSBDS_ONLY
  ...
2019-05-14 07:57:29 -07:00
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ABI Merge branch 'x86-mds-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-05-14 07:57:29 -07:00
accelerators
accounting psi: clarify the units used in pressure files 2019-04-05 16:02:31 -10:00
acpi/dsd LED updates for 5.2-rc1. 2019-05-07 18:02:51 -07:00
admin-guide Merge branch 'x86-mds-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-05-14 07:57:29 -07:00
aoe
arm ARM: 8833/1: Ensure that NEON code always compiles with Clang 2019-02-12 15:20:09 +00:00
arm64 Merge branch 'for-next/perf' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/will/linux into for-next/core 2019-05-03 10:18:08 +01:00
auxdisplay
backlight
block block: null: Add documentation for "zone_nr_conv" param 2019-04-09 08:18:23 -06:00
blockdev zram: idle writeback fixes and cleanup 2019-01-08 17:15:10 -08:00
bpf docs/btf: fix the missing section marks 2019-05-09 15:59:59 -07:00
bus-devices
cdrom
cgroup-v1 A fairly routine cycle for docs - lots of typo fixes, some new documents, 2019-03-09 09:56:17 -08:00
cma
connector
console
core-api A reasonably busy cycle for docs, including: 2019-05-08 12:42:50 -07:00
cpu-freq Documentation: cpu-freq: Frequencies aren't always sorted 2018-11-07 13:29:04 +01:00
crypto crypto: shash - remove shash_desc::flags 2019-04-25 15:38:12 +08:00
dev-tools A reasonably busy cycle for docs, including: 2019-05-08 12:42:50 -07:00
device-mapper dm cache: add support for discard passdown to the origin device 2019-03-05 14:53:52 -05:00
devicetree Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input 2019-05-13 15:21:48 -07:00
doc-guide docs: doc-guide: remove the extension from .rst files 2019-04-19 12:46:27 -06:00
driver-api This is the bulk of the GPIO changes for the v5.2 kernel cycle: 2019-05-11 10:54:43 -04:00
driver-model drm-misc-next for 5.2: 2019-03-25 11:05:12 +01:00
early-userspace Correct gen_init_cpio tool's documentation 2018-11-25 12:25:53 -07:00
EDID Docs/EDID: Calculate CRC while building the code 2018-11-06 07:36:22 -07:00
extcon
fault-injection doc: fault-injection: fix macro name in example 2019-01-07 15:36:11 -07:00
fb fbdev: fbmem: convert CONFIG_FB_LOGO_CENTER into a cmd line option 2019-01-16 17:42:35 +01:00
features Merge branch 'parisc-5.2-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux 2019-05-07 19:34:17 -07:00
filesystems Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2019-05-07 20:50:27 -07:00
firmware_class
firmware-guide Documentation: ACPI: move video_extension.txt to firmware-guide/acpi and convert to reST 2019-04-25 23:07:20 +02:00
fmc
fpga
gpio docs: gpio: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst 2019-04-23 23:30:07 +02:00
gpu drm: add drm_format_helper.c to kerneldoc 2019-04-17 09:39:22 +02:00
hid HID: doc: fix wrong data structure reference for UHID_OUTPUT 2018-12-18 14:55:22 +01:00
hwmon hwmon: (lm75) Add support for TMP75B 2019-05-03 13:16:18 -07:00
i2c i2c-piix4: Add Hygon Dhyana SMBus support 2019-05-03 16:47:54 +02:00
ia64
ide
iio
infiniband Documentation/infiniband: update from locked to pinned_vm 2019-02-07 12:56:23 -07:00
input doc: Change LXR references to elixir.bootlin.com 2019-02-01 16:05:03 -07:00
interconnect interconnect: Add generic on-chip interconnect API 2019-01-22 13:37:25 +01:00
ioctl seccomp: add a return code to trap to userspace 2018-12-11 16:28:41 -08:00
isdn
kbuild moduleparam: Save information about built-in modules in separate file 2019-05-07 21:50:24 +09:00
kdump kdump: Document kernel data exported in the vmcoreinfo note 2019-01-15 11:05:28 +01:00
kernel-hacking
laptops Documentation: fix lg-laptop.rst warnings 2019-02-11 08:27:47 -07:00
leds Documentation: Use "while" instead of "whilst" 2018-11-20 09:30:43 -07:00
lightnvm
livepatch docs/livepatch: Unify style of livepatch documentation in the ReST format 2019-05-07 16:06:28 -06:00
locking Documentation/locking/lockdep: Drop last two chars of sample states 2019-03-04 12:55:18 -07:00
m68k
maintainer
md
media media updates for v5.1-rc1 2019-05-08 11:13:17 -07:00
memory-devices
mic
mips
misc-devices Documentation: add ibmvmc to toctree(index) and fix warnings 2019-01-14 08:37:17 -07:00
mmc
mtd
namespaces
netlabel
networking Documentation: net: dsa: sja1105: Add info about supported traffic modes 2019-05-05 21:52:42 -07:00
nfc
nios2
nvdimm libnvdimm/security: Add documentation for nvdimm security support 2018-12-21 12:44:41 -08:00
nvmem Documentation: nvmem: document cell tables and lookup entries 2018-09-28 15:14:54 +02:00
openrisc
parisc
PCI pci-v4.20-changes 2018-10-25 06:50:48 -07:00
pcmcia
perf Documentation: perf: Add documentation for ThunderX2 PMU uncore driver 2018-12-06 12:29:47 +00:00
phy
platform
power PM/EM: Document the Energy Model framework 2019-01-27 12:29:37 +01:00
powerpc Documentation: powerpc: Expand the DAWR acronym 2019-05-03 02:54:58 +10:00
pps
process A reasonably busy cycle for docs, including: 2019-05-08 12:42:50 -07:00
pti
ptp
rapidio
RCU doc: Fix typos and otherwise modernize checklist.txt 2019-03-26 14:37:06 -07:00
riscv
s390 Documentation: Use "while" instead of "whilst" 2018-11-20 09:30:43 -07:00
scheduler sched/doc: Document Energy Aware Scheduling 2019-01-27 12:29:37 +01:00
scsi scsi: ufs-bsg: Allow reading descriptors 2019-02-27 09:00:02 -05:00
security doc: security: Add kern-doc for lsm_hooks.h 2019-02-22 08:54:09 -07:00
serial docs: serial: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst 2019-04-25 11:37:42 +02:00
sh sh: remove board_time_init() callback 2018-12-18 16:13:04 +01:00
sound ALSA: doc: my_chip has no element ioport 2019-04-03 11:55:47 +02:00
sparc docs: sparc: convert to ReST 2019-05-08 17:13:35 -07:00
sphinx
sphinx-static docs: improve readability for people with poorer eyesight 2018-10-07 09:16:50 -06:00
spi spi-summary: document set_cs_timing 2019-04-08 14:13:43 +07:00
sysctl A reasonably busy cycle for docs, including: 2019-05-08 12:42:50 -07:00
target scsi: target/core: Remove the write_pending_status() callback function 2019-02-04 21:23:59 -05:00
thermal docs: hwmon: Add an index file and rename docs to *.rst 2019-04-17 10:37:23 -07:00
timers Docs: Correct /proc/stat path 2019-02-22 08:50:17 -07:00
trace Some late arriving documentation changes. In particular, this contains the 2019-05-10 13:24:53 -04:00
translations Some late arriving documentation changes. In particular, this contains the 2019-05-10 13:24:53 -04:00
usb docs: usb: convert documents to ReST 2019-04-16 12:16:19 +02:00
userspace-api Documentation: seccomp: unify list indentation 2019-03-18 12:00:28 -06:00
virtual KVM: fix KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY_LOG for memory slots of unaligned size 2019-04-30 21:22:15 +02:00
vm docs/vm: Minor editorial changes in the THP and hugetlbfs 2019-04-30 06:34:40 -06:00
w1
watchdog Documentation/watchdog: Add documentation mlx-wdt driver 2019-03-02 15:28:20 +01:00
wimax
x86 Merge branch 'x86-mds-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-05-14 07:57:29 -07:00
xilinx Documentation: xilinx: Add documentation for eemi APIs 2018-10-09 13:26:05 +02:00
xtensa xtensa: document boot parameter passing 2019-02-03 18:06:19 -08:00
.gitignore
atomic_bitops.txt docs: atomic_bitops.txt: add a title for this document 2019-04-11 12:37:02 -06:00
atomic_t.txt Documentation/atomic_t: Clarify signed vs unsigned 2019-03-18 10:27:52 -07:00
bt8xxgpio.txt
btmrvl.txt
bus-virt-phys-mapping.txt
Changes
clearing-warn-once.txt A reasonably busy cycle for docs, including: 2019-05-08 12:42:50 -07:00
CodingStyle
conf.py This is a fairly typical cycle for documentation. There's some welcome 2018-10-24 18:01:11 +01:00
cpu-load.txt
cputopology.txt topology: Simplify cputopology.txt formatting and wording 2019-04-19 10:56:04 +02:00
crc32.txt
dcdbas.txt
debugging-modules.txt
debugging-via-ohci1394.txt
dell_rbu.txt
digsig.txt
DMA-API-HOWTO.txt DMA mapping updates for 5.2 2019-05-09 08:40:55 -07:00
DMA-API.txt virtio: fixes, cleanups 2019-03-10 12:47:57 -07:00
DMA-attributes.txt
DMA-ISA-LPC.txt Documentation/DMA-ISA-LPC: fix an incorrect reference 2019-02-11 08:23:07 -07:00
docutils.conf
dontdiff A reasonably busy cycle for docs, including: 2019-05-08 12:42:50 -07:00
efi-stub.txt
eisa.txt
futex-requeue-pi.txt
gcc-plugins.txt
highuid.txt
hw_random.txt
hwspinlock.txt
index.rst Merge branch 'x86-mds-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-05-14 07:57:29 -07:00
intel_txt.txt
Intel-IOMMU.txt
io_ordering.txt
io-mapping.txt
iostats.txt
IPMI.txt
IRQ-affinity.txt
IRQ-domain.txt
IRQ.txt
irqflags-tracing.txt
isa.txt
isapnp.txt
kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.txt
kobject.txt kref/kobject: Improve documentation 2018-12-06 13:57:03 +01:00
kprobes.txt Merge branch 'parisc-5.2-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux 2019-05-07 19:34:17 -07:00
kref.txt
ldm.txt
lockup-watchdogs.txt
logo.gif
logo.txt
lsm.txt
lzo.txt lib/lzo: fix bugs for very short or empty input 2019-04-05 16:02:30 -10:00
mailbox.txt
Makefile docs: Makefile: use latexmk if available 2019-04-01 14:33:42 -06:00
memory-barriers.txt docs/memory-barriers.txt: Update I/O section to be clearer about CPU vs thread 2019-04-23 13:34:17 +01:00
men-chameleon-bus.txt
nommu-mmap.txt
ntb.txt docs: ntb.txt: add blank lines to clean up some Sphinx warnings 2019-04-11 12:37:03 -06:00
numastat.txt
packing.txt lib: Add support for generic packing operations 2019-05-03 10:49:17 -04:00
padata.txt
parport-lowlevel.txt
percpu-rw-semaphore.txt
phy.txt
pi-futex.txt
pnp.txt
preempt-locking.txt x86/fpu: Remove fpu__restore() 2019-04-09 19:27:42 +02:00
pwm.txt
rbtree.txt
remoteproc.txt
rfkill.txt
robust-futex-ABI.txt
robust-futexes.txt futex: Update comments and docs about return values of arch futex code 2019-04-26 13:57:55 +01:00
rpmsg.txt
rtc.txt Documentation: rtc: Correct location of rtctest.c 2019-03-25 10:34:55 -06:00
SAK.txt
sgi-ioc4.txt
siphash.txt
SM501.txt
smsc_ece1099.txt
speculation.txt docs: speculation.txt: mark example blocks as such 2019-04-11 12:37:03 -06:00
static-keys.txt static_keys.txt: Fix trivial spelling mistake 2019-02-06 16:44:16 -07:00
SubmittingPatches
svga.txt
switchtec.txt NTB: switchtec_ntb: Update switchtec documentation with prerequisites for NTB 2018-10-11 11:28:53 -05:00
sync_file.txt
tee.txt
this_cpu_ops.txt
unaligned-memory-access.txt docs: unaligned-memory-access.txt: use a lowercase title 2019-04-11 12:37:03 -06:00
vfio-mediated-device.txt
vfio.txt
video-output.txt docs: video-output.txt: convert it to ReST format 2019-04-11 12:37:03 -06:00
xillybus.txt
xz.txt
zorro.txt