Commit 30a9dc08 authored by Thomas Gleixner's avatar Thomas Gleixner Committed by Stefan Bader

Documentation: Add section about CPU vulnerabilities

Add documentation for the L1TF vulnerability and the mitigation mechanisms:

  - Explain the problem and risks
  - Document the mitigation mechanisms
  - Document the command line controls
  - Document the sysfs files
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180713142323.287429944@linutronix.de

CVE-2018-3620
CVE-2018-3646

[smb: Added document as Documentation/security/l1tf.txt instead.]
Signed-off-by: default avatarStefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
parent 7700d76e
...@@ -24,3 +24,7 @@ tomoyo.txt ...@@ -24,3 +24,7 @@ tomoyo.txt
- documentation on the TOMOYO Linux Security Module. - documentation on the TOMOYO Linux Security Module.
IMA-templates.txt IMA-templates.txt
- documentation on the template management mechanism for IMA. - documentation on the template management mechanism for IMA.
l1tf.txt
- Describes CPU vulnerabilities and provides an overview of the
possible mitigations along with guidiance for selecting miti-
gations if they are configurable at compile, boot or run time.
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