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Linus Torvalds 223ba8ee0a Mitigate VMSCAPE issue with indirect branch predictor flushes
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Merge tag 'vmscape-for-linus-20250904' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull vmescape mitigation fixes from Dave Hansen:
 "Mitigate vmscape issue with indirect branch predictor flushes.

  vmscape is a vulnerability that essentially takes Spectre-v2 and
  attacks host userspace from a guest. It particularly affects
  hypervisors like QEMU.

  Even if a hypervisor may not have any sensitive data like disk
  encryption keys, guest-userspace may be able to attack the
  guest-kernel using the hypervisor as a confused deputy.

  There are many ways to mitigate vmscape using the existing Spectre-v2
  defenses like IBRS variants or the IBPB flushes. This series focuses
  solely on IBPB because it works universally across vendors and all
  vulnerable processors. Further work doing vendor and model-specific
  optimizations can build on top of this if needed / wanted.

  Do the normal issue mitigation dance:

   - Add the CPU bug boilerplate

   - Add a list of vulnerable CPUs

   - Use IBPB to flush the branch predictors after running guests"

* tag 'vmscape-for-linus-20250904' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/vmscape: Add old Intel CPUs to affected list
  x86/vmscape: Warn when STIBP is disabled with SMT
  x86/bugs: Move cpu_bugs_smt_update() down
  x86/vmscape: Enable the mitigation
  x86/vmscape: Add conditional IBPB mitigation
  x86/vmscape: Enumerate VMSCAPE bug
  Documentation/hw-vuln: Add VMSCAPE documentation
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