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[PATCH 35/97] docs: recommend use of md-clear feature on all Intel CPUs
From: |
Michael Roth |
Subject: |
[PATCH 35/97] docs: recommend use of md-clear feature on all Intel CPUs |
Date: |
Tue, 1 Oct 2019 18:45:14 -0500 |
From: Daniel P. Berrangé <address@hidden>
Update x86 CPU model guidance to recommend that the md-clear feature is
manually enabled with all Intel CPU models, when supported by the host
microcode.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <address@hidden>
Message-Id: <address@hidden>
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <address@hidden>
(cherry picked from commit 2c7e82a30774730100da9dbe68d2360459030d91)
Signed-off-by: Oguz Bektas <address@hidden>
Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <address@hidden>
---
docs/qemu-cpu-models.texi | 12 ++++++++++++
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
diff --git a/docs/qemu-cpu-models.texi b/docs/qemu-cpu-models.texi
index 23c11dc86f..ad040cfc98 100644
--- a/docs/qemu-cpu-models.texi
+++ b/docs/qemu-cpu-models.texi
@@ -200,6 +200,18 @@ Not included by default in any Intel CPU model.
Should be explicitly turned on for all Intel CPU models.
Note that not all CPU hardware will support this feature.
+
+@item @code{md-clear}
+
+Required to confirm the MDS (CVE-2018-12126, CVE-2018-12127, CVE-2018-12130,
+CVE-2019-11091) fixes.
+
+Not included by default in any Intel CPU model.
+
+Must be explicitly turned on for all Intel CPU models.
+
+Requires the host CPU microcode to support this feature before it
+can be used for guest CPUs.
@end table
--
2.17.1
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- [PATCH 39/97] docs/interop/bitmaps.rst: Fix typos, Michael Roth, 2019/10/01
- [PATCH 46/97] i386/acpi: show PCI Express bus on pxb-pcie expanders, Michael Roth, 2019/10/01
- [PATCH 03/97] qcow2: Fix full preallocation with external data file, Michael Roth, 2019/10/01
- [PATCH 32/97] vl: Fix -drive / -blockdev persistent reservation management, Michael Roth, 2019/10/01
- [PATCH 38/97] virtio-balloon: fix QEMU 4.0 config size migration incompatibility, Michael Roth, 2019/10/01
- [PATCH 49/97] virtio-balloon: Simplify deflate with pbp, Michael Roth, 2019/10/01
- [PATCH 42/97] hw/ssi/xilinx_spips: Convert lqspi_read() to read_with_attrs, Michael Roth, 2019/10/01
- [PATCH 45/97] ioapic: kvm: Skip route updates for masked pins, Michael Roth, 2019/10/01
- [PATCH 44/97] hw/ssi/xilinx_spips: Avoid out-of-bound access to lqspi_buf[], Michael Roth, 2019/10/01
- [PATCH 50/97] virtio-balloon: Better names for offset variables in inflate/deflate code, Michael Roth, 2019/10/01
- [PATCH 35/97] docs: recommend use of md-clear feature on all Intel CPUs,
Michael Roth <=
- [PATCH 43/97] hw/ssi/xilinx_spips: Avoid AXI writes to the LQSPI linear memory, Michael Roth, 2019/10/01
- [PATCH 36/97] virtio-pci: fix missing device properties, Michael Roth, 2019/10/01
- [PATCH 47/97] virtio-balloon: Fix wrong sign extension of PFNs, Michael Roth, 2019/10/01
- [PATCH 26/97] target/ppc: Fix xvabs[sd]p, xvnabs[sd]p, xvneg[sd]p, xvcpsgn[sd]p, Michael Roth, 2019/10/01
- [PATCH 27/97] target/ppc: Fix xvxsigdp, Michael Roth, 2019/10/01
- [PATCH 53/97] virtio-balloon: don't track subpages for the PBP, Michael Roth, 2019/10/01
- [PATCH 48/97] virtio-balloon: Fix QEMU crashes on pagesize > BALLOON_PAGE_SIZE, Michael Roth, 2019/10/01
- [PATCH 51/97] virtio-balloon: Rework pbp tracking data, Michael Roth, 2019/10/01
- [PATCH 55/97] i386/acpi: fix gint overflow in crs_range_compare, Michael Roth, 2019/10/01
- [PATCH 64/97] iotests: Test backup job with two guest writes, Michael Roth, 2019/10/01