[PATCH 4.9 081/107] Documentation/l1tf: Fix typos

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Aug 14 2018 - 13:43:51 EST


4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>

commit 1949f9f49792d65dba2090edddbe36a5f02e3ba3 upstream

Fix spelling and other typos

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Documentation/l1tf.rst | 14 +++++++-------
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

--- a/Documentation/l1tf.rst
+++ b/Documentation/l1tf.rst
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ vulnerability is not present on:
- Older processor models, where the CPU family is < 6

- A range of Intel ATOM processors (Cedarview, Cloverview, Lincroft,
- Penwell, Pineview, Slivermont, Airmont, Merrifield)
+ Penwell, Pineview, Silvermont, Airmont, Merrifield)

- The Intel Core Duo Yonah variants (2006 - 2008)

@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ Attack scenarios
deployment scenario. The mitigations, their protection scope and impact
are described in the next sections.

- The default mitigations and the rationale for chosing them are explained
+ The default mitigations and the rationale for choosing them are explained
at the end of this document. See :ref:`default_mitigations`.

.. _l1tf_sys_info:
@@ -191,15 +191,15 @@ Guest mitigation mechanisms
- unconditional ('always')

The conditional mode avoids L1D flushing after VMEXITs which execute
- only audited code pathes before the corresponding VMENTER. These code
- pathes have beed verified that they cannot expose secrets or other
+ only audited code paths before the corresponding VMENTER. These code
+ paths have been verified that they cannot expose secrets or other
interesting data to an attacker, but they can leak information about the
address space layout of the hypervisor.

Unconditional mode flushes L1D on all VMENTER invocations and provides
maximum protection. It has a higher overhead than the conditional
mode. The overhead cannot be quantified correctly as it depends on the
- work load scenario and the resulting number of VMEXITs.
+ workload scenario and the resulting number of VMEXITs.

The general recommendation is to enable L1D flush on VMENTER. The kernel
defaults to conditional mode on affected processors.
@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ Guest mitigation mechanisms
Whether the interrupts with are affine to CPUs, which run untrusted
guests, provide interesting data for an attacker depends on the system
configuration and the scenarios which run on the system. While for some
- of the interrupts it can be assumed that they wont expose interesting
+ of the interrupts it can be assumed that they won't expose interesting
information beyond exposing hints about the host OS memory layout, there
is no way to make general assumptions.

@@ -299,7 +299,7 @@ Guest mitigation mechanisms
to be brought up at least partially and are then shut down
again. "nosmt" can be undone via the sysfs interface.

- nosmt=force Has the same effect as "nosmt' but it does not allow to
+ nosmt=force Has the same effect as "nosmt" but it does not allow to
undo the SMT disable via the sysfs interface.
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