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commit 81ac7e5d741742d650b4ed6186c4826c1a0631a7 upstream Gather Data Sampling (GDS) is a transient execution attack using gather instructions from the AVX2 and AVX512 extensions. This attack allows malicious code to infer data that was previously stored in vector registers. Systems that are not vulnerable to GDS will set the GDS_NO bit of the IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES MSR. This is useful for VM guests that may think they are on vulnerable systems that are, in fact, not affected. Guests that are running on affected hosts where the mitigation is enabled are protected as if they were running on an unaffected system. On all hosts that are not affected or that are mitigated, set the GDS_NO bit. Signed-off-by: Daniel Sneddon <daniel.sneddon@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Sneddon <daniel.sneddon@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel
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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 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.