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Commit e02b50ca authored by KP Singh's avatar KP Singh Committed by Borislav Petkov (AMD)
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Documentation/hw-vuln: Document the interaction between IBRS and STIBP

Explain why STIBP is needed with legacy IBRS as currently implemented
(KERNEL_IBRS) and why STIBP is not needed when enhanced IBRS is enabled.

Fixes: 7c693f54

 ("x86/speculation: Add spectre_v2=ibrs option to support Kernel IBRS")
Signed-off-by: default avatarKP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230227060541.1939092-2-kpsingh@kernel.org
parent 6921ed90
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