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x86/bugs: Make spectre user default depend on MITIGATION_SPECTRE_V2
authorBreno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Thu, 31 Oct 2024 11:06:17 +0000 (04:06 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 29 May 2025 09:13:01 +0000 (11:13 +0200)
commitbf31a2fdaf146b8d31ce8d0545e26c210fb6976d
treec3bba322a4129a7a1654926c041bbf24de6f1077
parent13eb3636d96d0162dc99e73dbcdd801938977049
x86/bugs: Make spectre user default depend on MITIGATION_SPECTRE_V2

[ Upstream commit 98fdaeb296f51ef08e727a7cc72e5b5c864c4f4d ]

Change the default value of spectre v2 in user mode to respect the
CONFIG_MITIGATION_SPECTRE_V2 config option.

Currently, user mode spectre v2 is set to auto
(SPECTRE_V2_USER_CMD_AUTO) by default, even if
CONFIG_MITIGATION_SPECTRE_V2 is disabled.

Set the spectre_v2 value to auto (SPECTRE_V2_USER_CMD_AUTO) if the
Spectre v2 config (CONFIG_MITIGATION_SPECTRE_V2) is enabled, otherwise
set the value to none (SPECTRE_V2_USER_CMD_NONE).

Important to say the command line argument "spectre_v2_user" overwrites
the default value in both cases.

When CONFIG_MITIGATION_SPECTRE_V2 is not set, users have the flexibility
to opt-in for specific mitigations independently. In this scenario,
setting spectre_v2= will not enable spectre_v2_user=, and command line
options spectre_v2_user and spectre_v2 are independent when
CONFIG_MITIGATION_SPECTRE_V2=n.

Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: David Kaplan <David.Kaplan@amd.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241031-x86_bugs_last_v2-v2-2-b7ff1dab840e@debian.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c