Stéphane Lesimple 5e3033e2f5 enh: CVE-2022-40982 (Downfall) overhaul & Spectre V2 enhancements
Downfall:

- added `--kernel-config` support for all three Kconfig variants seen over all kernel versions up to now
- added `--kernel-map` support for `gds_select_mitigation` in `System.map`
- fixed the `--sysfs-only` mode
- added verbose information about remediation when `--explain` is used
- implemented `--paranoid mode`, requiring `GDS_MITIGATION_LOCKED` so that mitigation can't be disabled at runtime
- fixed offline mode (was wrongly looking at the system `dmesg`)
- better microcode status reporting (enabled, disabled, unsupported, unknown)
- fixed unknown (EOL) AVX-capable Intel family 6 CPUs now defaulting to affected
- fixed 2 missing known affected CPU models: INTEL_FAM6_SKYLAKE_L and INTEL_FAM6_SKYLAKE
- fixed case when we're running in a VM and the hypervisor doesn't let us read the MSR

Spectre V2:
- fix: affected_cpu: added Centaur family 7 (CentaurHauls) and Zhaoxin family 7 (Shanghai) as immune
- fix: added Centaur family 5 (CentaurHauls) and NSC family 5 (Geode by NSC) to is_cpu_specex_free()
- enh: offline mode: added detection logic by probing System.map and Kconfig
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