CONFIG_MITIGATION_SPECTRE_BHI: Mitigate Spectre-BHB (Branch History Injection)

General informations

The Linux kernel configuration item CONFIG_MITIGATION_SPECTRE_BHI:

• prompt: Mitigate Spectre-BHB (Branch History Injection)
• type: bool
• depends on: CONFIG_CPU_SUP_INTEL
• defined in arch/x86/Kconfig
• found in Linux kernels: 6.9–6.13, 6.14-rc+HEAD

Help text

Enable BHI mitigations. BHI attacks are a form of Spectre V2 attacks where the branch history buffer is poisoned to speculatively steer indirect branches. See Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/spectre.rst

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