[libvirt] [PATCH 0/2] cpu_map: Introduce IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES MSR bits for TAA

Jiri Denemark jdenemar at redhat.com
Fri Dec 13 11:48:31 UTC 2019


CVE-2019-11135

TAA_NO and TSX_CTRL are new IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES MSR bits related to
the TSX Asynchronous Abort (TAA) vulnerability. See [1] and [2] for
details about the issue and mitigations.

[1] https://software.intel.com/security-software-guidance/insights/deep-dive-intel-transactional-synchronization-extensions-intel-tsx-asynchronous-abort
[2] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/hw-vuln/tsx_async_abort.html

Jiri Denemark (2):
  cpu_map: Add TAA_NO bit for IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES MSR
  cpu_map: Add TSX_CTRL bit for IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES MSR

 src/cpu_map/x86_features.xml | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

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