Patch [001/001] Documentation: Correct small errors in recently added info on CPU vulnerabilities

Joerg M. Sigle posted 1 patch 1 year, 10 months ago
Patch [001/001] Documentation: Correct small errors in recently added info on CPU vulnerabilities
Posted by Joerg M. Sigle 1 year, 10 months ago
From: Joerg-Michael Sigle <joerg.sigle@jsigle.com>

In file     Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/gather_data_sampling.rst
the words   Guest can infer guest from other guests
should be   Guests can infer data from other guests

Found in 15.5.152, this may affect all kernel versions with the same documentation file.
The error came as part of commit 8974eb588283b7d44a7c91fa09fcbaf380339f3a in the master branch.

Signed-off-by: Joerg-Michael Sigle <joerg.sigle@jsigle.com>

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The corrected text is in section "Attack scenarios", example 4; also visible in the 2nd diff output in:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=8974eb588283b7d44a7c91fa09fcbaf380339f3a

I'm submitting this patch to you as you're referenced in that patch
or shown by scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/
Hope this is ok and useful. Thanks & kind regards, Joerg


# diff -ru a/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/gather_data_sampling.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/gather_data_sampling.rst
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/gather_data_sampling.rst        2024-03-15 19:30:36.000000000 +0100
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/gather_data_sampling.rst        2024-03-24 06:07:51.847427462 +0100
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
        Non-enclaves can infer SGX enclave data
        Userspace can infer kernel data
        Guests can infer data from hosts
-       Guest can infer guest from other guests
+       Guests can infer data from other guests
        Users can infer data from other users

 Because of this, it is important to ensure that the mitigation stays enabled in