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Documentation: Add section about CPU vulnerabilities
authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fri, 13 Jul 2018 14:23:26 +0000 (16:23 +0200)
committerKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Sat, 11 Aug 2018 00:44:45 +0000 (20:44 -0400)
commit1ef39374d55a4a11855a0320945db5fdf3555212
treec211b5220cebb786e5fe086f506affa70c7e589d
parent7bb798a0d6c60b5fd6b7a70f1cef923f5089c51c
Documentation: Add section about CPU vulnerabilities

Add documentation for the L1TF vulnerability and the mitigation mechanisms:

  - Explain the problem and risks
  - Document the mitigation mechanisms
  - Document the command line controls
  - Document the sysfs files

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180713142323.287429944@linutronix.de
Orabug: 28220674
CVE: CVE-2018-3620

(cherry picked from commit 3ec8ce5d866ec6a08a9cfab82b62acf4a830b35f)

Signed-off-by: Mihai Carabas <mihai.carabas@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Darren Kenny <darren.kenny@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Conflicts:
Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst
Documentation/admin-guide/l1tf.rst
Contextual: The admin-guide is introduced later by 9d85025b "docs-rst: create
an user's manual book" so l1tf is added in Documentation folder.
Documentation/admin-guide/l1tf.rst [new file with mode: 0644]