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Documentation/hw-vuln: Add VMSCAPE documentation
authorPawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Thu, 14 Aug 2025 17:20:42 +0000 (10:20 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 11 Sep 2025 15:19:15 +0000 (17:19 +0200)
commit55ad07f8a22740fe49fa195f49f2dec30bcdb879
treeeba09bb7d5cbc5305c6a8b5501eef543d4968511
parentf97f1002271b0834b87afa7097b5ad6e7d14abd9
Documentation/hw-vuln: Add VMSCAPE documentation

Commit 9969779d0803f5dcd4460ae7aca2bc3fd91bff12 upstream.

VMSCAPE is a vulnerability that may allow a guest to influence the branch
prediction in host userspace, particularly affecting hypervisors like QEMU.

Add the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/index.rst
Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/vmscape.rst [new file with mode: 0644]