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On AMD IBRS does not prevent Retbleed; as such use IBPB before a firmware call to flush the branch history state. And because in order to do an EFI call, the kernel maps a whole lot of the kernel page table into the EFI page table, do an IBPB just in case in order to prevent the scenario of poisoning the BTB and causing an EFI call using the unprotected RET there. [ bp: Massage. ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220715194550.793957-1-cascardo@canonical.com
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.
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.