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Currently, there exists a system-wide setting related to CPU security mitigations, denoted as 'mitigations='. When set to 'mitigations=off', it deactivates all optional CPU mitigations. Therefore, if we implement a system-wide 'mitigations=off' setting, it should inherently bypass Spectre v1 and Spectre v4 in the BPF subsystem. Please note that there is also a more specific 'nospectre_v1' setting on x86 and ppc architectures, though it is not currently exported. For the time being, let's disregard more fine-grained options. This idea emerged during our discussion about potential Spectre v1 attacks with Luis [0]. [0] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/b4fc15f7-b204-767e-ebb9-fdb4233961fb@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com> Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org> Acked-by: KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org> Cc: Luis Gerhorst <gerhorst@cs.fau.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20231005084123.1338-1-laoar.shao@gmail.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.