Adding upstream version 4.19.304.upstream/4.19.304upstream

Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>

1 files changed, 30 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 42ddd78ea..84c34f7e8 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1290,6 +1290,26 @@
 			Format: off | on
 			default: on
 
+	gather_data_sampling=
+			[X86,INTEL] Control the Gather Data Sampling (GDS)
+			mitigation.
+
+			Gather Data Sampling is a hardware vulnerability which
+			allows unprivileged speculative access to data which was
+			previously stored in vector registers.
+
+			This issue is mitigated by default in updated microcode.
+			The mitigation may have a performance impact but can be
+			disabled. On systems without the microcode mitigation
+			disabling AVX serves as a mitigation.
+
+			force:	Disable AVX to mitigate systems without
+				microcode mitigation. No effect if the microcode
+				mitigation is present. Known to cause crashes in
+				userspace with buggy AVX enumeration.
+
+			off:    Disable GDS mitigation.
+
 	gcov_persist=	[GCOV] When non-zero (default), profiling data for
 			kernel modules is saved and remains accessible via
 			debugfs, even when the module is unloaded/reloaded.
@@ -2555,22 +2575,23 @@
 				Disable all optional CPU mitigations.  This
 				improves system performance, but it may also
 				expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
-				Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC]
+				Equivalent to: gather_data_sampling=off [X86]
 					       kpti=0 [ARM64]
-					       nospectre_v1 [PPC]
+					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86]
+					       l1tf=off [X86]
+					       mds=off [X86]
+					       mmio_stale_data=off [X86]
+					       no_entry_flush [PPC]
+					       no_uaccess_flush [PPC]
 					       nobp=0 [S390]
+					       nopti [X86,PPC]
+					       nospectre_v1 [PPC]
 					       nospectre_v1 [X86]
 					       nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64]
-					       spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
 					       spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
+					       spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
 					       ssbd=force-off [ARM64]
-					       l1tf=off [X86]
-					       mds=off [X86]
 					       tsx_async_abort=off [X86]
-					       kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86]
-					       no_entry_flush [PPC]
-					       no_uaccess_flush [PPC]
-					       mmio_stale_data=off [X86]
 
 				Exceptions:
 					       This does not have any effect on