CONFIG_MITIGATION_SSB: Mitigate Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) hardware bug

General informations

The Linux kernel configuration item CONFIG_MITIGATION_SSB:

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

Help text

Enable mitigation for Speculative Store Bypass (SSB). SSB is a hardware security vulnerability and its exploitation takes advantage of speculative execution in a similar way to the Meltdown and Spectre security vulnerabilities.

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