On Mon, 17 Jun 2019 22:21:51 +0200 (CEST) Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de wrote:
+Spectre variant 1 attacks take advantage of speculative execution of +conditional branches, while Spectre variant 2 attacks use speculative +execution of indirect branches to leak privileged memory. See [1] [5] +[7] [10] [11].
It would be great to actually link these [N] to the actual http link at the bottom. No idea what's the best way to do that.
Jonathan?
Append an underscore to the link text, so:
See [1_] [5_] ... Then, when adding the links:
.. _1: https://.../
There are other ways; see
http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/user/rst/quickref.html#external-hyperli...
for the list.
The below renders horribly when converted to HTML
You probably want to wrap these into a table
- nospectre_v2 [X86] Disable all mitigations for the Spectre variant 2
(indirect branch prediction) vulnerability. System mayallow data leaks with this option, which is equivalentto spectre_v2=off.spectre_v2= [X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2(indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.The default operation protects the kernel fromuser space attacks.Maybe Jonathan has a better idea.
The easiest thing is probably a definition list:
nospectre_v2 [X86] Disable all mitigations for the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction) ...
spectrev2= ...
i.e. just move the descriptive text into an indented block below the term of interest.
jon