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authorPawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>2025-08-14 10:20:42 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2025-09-11 17:21:46 +0200
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x86/vmscape: Enable the mitigation
Commit 556c1ad666ad90c50ec8fccb930dd5046cfbecfb upstream. Enable the previously added mitigation for VMscape. Add the cmdline vmscape={off|ibpb|force} and sysfs reporting. Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu1
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt11
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu
index 53755b2021ed..28f062dc25e1 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu
@@ -525,6 +525,7 @@ What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities
/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/srbds
/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/tsa
/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/tsx_async_abort
+ /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/vmscape
Date: January 2018
Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Description: Information about CPU vulnerabilities
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index f402bbaccc8a..8724c2c580b8 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -3548,6 +3548,7 @@
srbds=off [X86,INTEL]
ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
tsx_async_abort=off [X86]
+ vmscape=off [X86]
Exceptions:
This does not have any effect on
@@ -7425,6 +7426,16 @@
vmpoff= [KNL,S390] Perform z/VM CP command after power off.
Format: <command>
+ vmscape= [X86] Controls mitigation for VMscape attacks.
+ VMscape attacks can leak information from a userspace
+ hypervisor to a guest via speculative side-channels.
+
+ off - disable the mitigation
+ ibpb - use Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier
+ (IBPB) mitigation (default)
+ force - force vulnerability detection even on
+ unaffected processors
+
vsyscall= [X86-64,EARLY]
Controls the behavior of vsyscalls (i.e. calls to
fixed addresses of 0xffffffffff600x00 from legacy