CONFIG_MITIGATION_SPECTRE_V2: Mitigate SPECTRE V2 hardware bug

General informations

The Linux kernel configuration item CONFIG_MITIGATION_SPECTRE_V2:

• prompt: Mitigate SPECTRE V2 hardware bug
• type: bool
• depends on: (none)
• defined in arch/x86/Kconfig
• found in Linux kernels: 6.12–6.13, 6.14-rc+HEAD

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Enable mitigation for Spectre V2 (Branch Target Injection). Spectre V2 is a class of side channel attacks that takes advantage of indirect branch predictors inside the processor. In Spectre variant 2 attacks, the attacker can steer speculative indirect branches in the victim to gadget code by poisoning the branch target buffer of a CPU used for predicting indirect branch addresses. See also Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/spectre.rst

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