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commit e672f8bf upstream Updated the documentation for a new CVE-2019-11091 Microarchitectural Data Sampling Uncacheable Memory (MDSUM) which is a variant of Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS). MDS is a family of side channel attacks on internal buffers in Intel CPUs. MDSUM is a special case of MSBDS, MFBDS and MLPDS. An uncacheable load from memory that takes a fault or assist can leave data in a microarchitectural structure that may later be observed using one of the same methods used by MSBDS, MFBDS or MLPDS. There are no new code changes expected for MDSUM. The existing mitigation for MDS applies to MDSUM as well. Signed-off-by:
Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by:
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by:
Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com> Reviewed-by:
Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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