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Linus Torvalds 2bb69f5fc7 x86 mitigations for the native BHI hardware vulnerabilty:
Branch History Injection (BHI) attacks may allow a malicious application to
 influence indirect branch prediction in kernel by poisoning the branch
 history. eIBRS isolates indirect branch targets in ring0.  The BHB can
 still influence the choice of indirect branch predictor entry, and although
 branch predictor entries are isolated between modes when eIBRS is enabled,
 the BHB itself is not isolated between modes.
 
 Add mitigations against it either with the help of microcode or with
 software sequences for the affected CPUs.
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Merge tag 'nativebhi' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull x86 mitigations from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Mitigations for the native BHI hardware vulnerabilty:

  Branch History Injection (BHI) attacks may allow a malicious
  application to influence indirect branch prediction in kernel by
  poisoning the branch history. eIBRS isolates indirect branch targets
  in ring0. The BHB can still influence the choice of indirect branch
  predictor entry, and although branch predictor entries are isolated
  between modes when eIBRS is enabled, the BHB itself is not isolated
  between modes.

  Add mitigations against it either with the help of microcode or with
  software sequences for the affected CPUs"

[ This also ends up enabling the full mitigation by default despite the
  system call hardening, because apparently there are other indirect
  calls that are still sufficiently reachable, and the 'auto' case just
  isn't hardened enough.

  We'll have some more inevitable tweaking in the future    - Linus ]

* tag 'nativebhi' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  KVM: x86: Add BHI_NO
  x86/bhi: Mitigate KVM by default
  x86/bhi: Add BHI mitigation knob
  x86/bhi: Enumerate Branch History Injection (BHI) bug
  x86/bhi: Define SPEC_CTRL_BHI_DIS_S
  x86/bhi: Add support for clearing branch history at syscall entry
  x86/syscall: Don't force use of indirect calls for system calls
  x86/bugs: Change commas to semicolons in 'spectre_v2' sysfs file
2024-04-08 20:07:51 -07:00
arch x86 mitigations for the native BHI hardware vulnerabilty: 2024-04-08 20:07:51 -07:00
block block-6.9-20240405 2024-04-05 17:04:11 -07:00
certs This update includes the following changes: 2023-11-02 16:15:30 -10:00
crypto This push fixes a regression that broke iwd as well as a divide by 2024-03-25 10:48:23 -07:00
Documentation x86 mitigations for the native BHI hardware vulnerabilty: 2024-04-08 20:07:51 -07:00
drivers Miscellaneous x86 fixes: 2024-04-07 09:33:21 -07:00
fs for-6.9-rc2-tag 2024-04-08 13:11:11 -07:00
include memblock tests: fix build errors 2024-04-08 10:11:37 -07:00
init init: open output files from cpio unpacking with O_LARGEFILE 2024-04-05 11:21:30 -07:00
io_uring io_uring/kbuf: hold io_buffer_list reference over mmap 2024-04-02 19:03:27 -06:00
ipc sysctl changes for v6.9-rc1 2024-03-18 14:59:13 -07:00
kernel Fix various timer bugs: 2024-04-07 09:20:50 -07:00
lib stackdepot: rename pool_index to pool_index_plus_1 2024-04-05 11:21:31 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license 2022-11-08 15:44:01 +01:00
mm x86/mm/pat: fix VM_PAT handling in COW mappings 2024-04-05 11:21:31 -07:00
net nfsd-6.9 fixes: 2024-04-06 09:37:50 -07:00
rust Kbuild updates for v6.9 2024-03-21 14:41:00 -07:00
samples Tracing updates for 6.9: 2024-03-18 15:11:44 -07:00
scripts Four small documentation fixes. 2024-04-02 12:44:09 -07:00
security security: Place security_path_post_mknod() where the original IMA call was 2024-04-03 10:21:32 -07:00
sound ASoC: Fixes for v6.9 2024-04-05 08:48:12 +02:00
tools memblock tests: fix build errors 2024-04-08 10:11:37 -07:00
usr Kbuild updates for v6.8 2024-01-18 17:57:07 -08:00
virt KVM Xen and pfncache changes for 6.9: 2024-03-11 10:42:55 -04:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with v6.7-rc4's for_each macro list 2023-12-08 23:54:38 +01:00
.cocciconfig
.editorconfig Add .editorconfig file for basic formatting 2023-12-28 16:22:47 +09:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add Jeff Kirsher to .get_maintainer.ignore 2024-03-08 11:36:54 +00:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore kbuild: create a list of all built DTB files 2024-02-19 18:20:39 +09:00
.mailmap MAINTAINERS: change vmware.com addresses to broadcom.com 2024-04-05 11:21:31 -07:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS Not a ton of stuff happening in the clk framework in this pull request. We got 2024-03-15 11:48:01 -07:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Devicetree fixes for v6.9, part 1: 2024-04-05 14:07:22 -07:00
Makefile Linux 6.9-rc3 2024-04-07 13:22:46 -07:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

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

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

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.