This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled docs/kernel-parameters: Update descriptions for "mitigations=" param with retbleed to the 5.10-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: docs-kernel-parameters-update-descriptions-for-mitigations-param-with-retbleed.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From ea304a8b89fd0d6cf94ee30cb139dc23d9f1a62f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eiichi Tsukata <eiichi.tsukata@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2022 04:39:07 +0000 Subject: docs/kernel-parameters: Update descriptions for "mitigations=" param with retbleed From: Eiichi Tsukata <eiichi.tsukata@xxxxxxxxxxx> commit ea304a8b89fd0d6cf94ee30cb139dc23d9f1a62f upstream. Updates descriptions for "mitigations=off" and "mitigations=auto,nosmt" with the respective retbleed= settings. Signed-off-by: Eiichi Tsukata <eiichi.tsukata@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx> Cc: corbet@xxxxxxx Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220728043907.165688-1-eiichi.tsukata@xxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -2873,6 +2873,7 @@ no_entry_flush [PPC] no_uaccess_flush [PPC] mmio_stale_data=off [X86] + retbleed=off [X86] Exceptions: This does not have any effect on @@ -2895,6 +2896,7 @@ mds=full,nosmt [X86] tsx_async_abort=full,nosmt [X86] mmio_stale_data=full,nosmt [X86] + retbleed=auto,nosmt [X86] mminit_loglevel= [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set, this Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from eiichi.tsukata@xxxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.10/docs-kernel-parameters-update-descriptions-for-mitigations-param-with-retbleed.patch