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 5.18-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-5.18 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
@@ -3106,6 +3106,7 @@
no_entry_flush [PPC]
no_uaccess_flush [PPC]
mmio_stale_data=off [X86]
+ retbleed=off [X86]
Exceptions:
This does not have any effect on
@@ -3128,6 +3129,7 @@
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-5.18/docs-kernel-parameters-update-descriptions-for-mitigations-param-with-retbleed.patch
