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x86/bugs: Qualify RETBLEED_INTEL_MSG
authorDavid Kaplan <david.kaplan@amd.com>
Fri, 3 Oct 2025 17:19:36 +0000 (12:19 -0500)
committerBorislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Tue, 21 Oct 2025 10:32:28 +0000 (12:32 +0200)
commit204ced4108f5d38f6804968fd9543cc69c3f8da6
tree9401c35f0e97945037f7101a474f24173d23d7fc
parent876f0d43af78639790bee0e57b39d498ae35adcf
x86/bugs: Qualify RETBLEED_INTEL_MSG

When retbleed mitigation is disabled, the kernel already prints an info
message that the system is vulnerable.  Recent code restructuring also
inadvertently led to RETBLEED_INTEL_MSG being printed as an error, which is
unnecessary as retbleed mitigation was already explicitly disabled (by config
option, cmdline, etc.).

Qualify this print statement so the warning is not printed unless an actual
retbleed mitigation was selected and is being disabled due to incompatibility
with spectre_v2.

Fixes: e3b78a7ad5ea ("x86/bugs: Restructure retbleed mitigation")
Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220624
Signed-off-by: David Kaplan <david.kaplan@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251003171936.155391-1-david.kaplan@amd.com
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c