CONFIG_MITIGATION_VMSCAPE: Mitigate VMSCAPE

General informations

The Linux kernel configuration item CONFIG_MITIGATION_VMSCAPE:

• prompt: Mitigate VMSCAPE
• type: bool
• depends on: CONFIG_KVM
• defined in arch/x86/Kconfig
• found in Linux kernels: 6.17-rc+HEAD

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Enable mitigation for VMSCAPE attacks. VMSCAPE is a hardware security vulnerability on Intel and AMD CPUs that may allow a guest to do Spectre v2 style attacks on userspace hypervisor.

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