CONFIG_MITIGATION_GDS: Mitigate Gather Data Sampling

General informations

The Linux kernel configuration item CONFIG_MITIGATION_GDS:

• prompt: Mitigate Gather Data Sampling
• type: bool
• depends on: CONFIG_CPU_SUP_INTEL
• defined in arch/x86/Kconfig
• found in Linux kernels: 6.12–6.13, 6.14-rc+HEAD

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Enable mitigation for Gather Data Sampling (GDS). GDS is a hardware vulnerability which allows unprivileged speculative access to data which was previously stored in vector registers. The attacker uses gather instructions to infer the stale vector register data.

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