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powerpc/fsl: Update Spectre v2 reporting
authorDiana Craciun <diana.craciun@nxp.com>
Thu, 11 Apr 2019 11:46:27 +0000 (21:46 +1000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 17 Apr 2019 06:36:43 +0000 (08:36 +0200)
commit dfa88658fb0583abb92e062c7a9cd5a5b94f2a46 upstream.

Report branch predictor state flush as a mitigation for
Spectre variant 2.

Signed-off-by: Diana Craciun <diana.craciun@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
arch/powerpc/kernel/security.c

index 6dc5cdc2b87c48c7dcce9ebf2a67fc2e8af0cc7c..43ce800e73bf91887199b4455ed884a0bc3ac48c 100644 (file)
@@ -213,8 +213,11 @@ ssize_t cpu_show_spectre_v2(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, c
 
                if (count_cache_flush_type == COUNT_CACHE_FLUSH_HW)
                        seq_buf_printf(&s, "(hardware accelerated)");
-       } else
+       } else if (btb_flush_enabled) {
+               seq_buf_printf(&s, "Mitigation: Branch predictor state flush");
+       } else {
                seq_buf_printf(&s, "Vulnerable");
+       }
 
        seq_buf_printf(&s, "\n");