Patch "[PATCH 25/30] powerpc/speculation: Support 'mitigations=' cmdline" has been added to the 4.19-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    [PATCH 25/30] powerpc/speculation: Support 'mitigations=' cmdline

to the 4.19-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     0025-powerpc-speculation-Support-mitigations-cmdline-opti.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


From 1caa66c02b21ad771c6bfa38327c68ba308a633d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2019 15:39:30 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 25/30] powerpc/speculation: Support 'mitigations=' cmdline
 option

commit 782e69efb3dfed6e8360bc612e8c7827a901a8f9 upstream

Configure powerpc CPU runtime speculation bug mitigations in accordance
with the 'mitigations=' cmdline option.  This affects Meltdown, Spectre
v1, Spectre v2, and Speculative Store Bypass.

The default behavior is unchanged.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> (on x86)
Reviewed-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
Cc: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/245a606e1a42a558a310220312d9b6adb9159df6.1555085500.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 9 +++++----
 arch/powerpc/kernel/security.c                  | 6 +++---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c                  | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 31c17532c219..49aa191979c1 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2503,7 +2503,7 @@
 			http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git
 
 	mitigations=
-			[X86] Control optional mitigations for CPU
+			[X86,PPC] Control optional mitigations for CPU
 			vulnerabilities.  This is a set of curated,
 			arch-independent options, each of which is an
 			aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
@@ -2512,10 +2512,11 @@
 				Disable all optional CPU mitigations.  This
 				improves system performance, but it may also
 				expose users to several CPU vulnerabilities.
-				Equivalent to: nopti [X86]
-					       nospectre_v2 [X86]
+				Equivalent to: nopti [X86,PPC]
+					       nospectre_v1 [PPC]
+					       nospectre_v2 [X86,PPC]
 					       spectre_v2_user=off [X86]
-					       spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86]
+					       spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86,PPC]
 					       l1tf=off [X86]
 
 			auto (default)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/security.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/security.c
index 1341325599a7..4ccbf611a3c5 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/security.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/security.c
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ void setup_barrier_nospec(void)
 	enable = security_ftr_enabled(SEC_FTR_FAVOUR_SECURITY) &&
 		 security_ftr_enabled(SEC_FTR_BNDS_CHK_SPEC_BAR);
 
-	if (!no_nospec)
+	if (!no_nospec && !cpu_mitigations_off())
 		enable_barrier_nospec(enable);
 }
 
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ static int __init handle_nospectre_v2(char *p)
 early_param("nospectre_v2", handle_nospectre_v2);
 void setup_spectre_v2(void)
 {
-	if (no_spectrev2)
+	if (no_spectrev2 || cpu_mitigations_off())
 		do_btb_flush_fixups();
 	else
 		btb_flush_enabled = true;
@@ -299,7 +299,7 @@ void setup_stf_barrier(void)
 
 	stf_enabled_flush_types = type;
 
-	if (!no_stf_barrier)
+	if (!no_stf_barrier && !cpu_mitigations_off())
 		stf_barrier_enable(enable);
 }
 
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
index faf00222b324..eaf7300be5ab 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
@@ -955,7 +955,7 @@ void setup_rfi_flush(enum l1d_flush_type types, bool enable)
 
 	enabled_flush_types = types;
 
-	if (!no_rfi_flush)
+	if (!no_rfi_flush && !cpu_mitigations_off())
 		rfi_flush_enable(enable);
 }
 
-- 
2.21.0



Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jpoimboe@redhat.com are

queue-4.19/0025-powerpc-speculation-Support-mitigations-cmdline-opti.patch
queue-4.19/0022-x86-speculation-mds-Print-SMT-vulnerable-on-MSBDS-wi.patch
queue-4.19/0024-x86-speculation-Support-mitigations-cmdline-option.patch
queue-4.19/0023-cpu-speculation-Add-mitigations-cmdline-option.patch
queue-4.19/0018-x86-speculation-mds-Add-mds-full-nosmt-cmdline-optio.patch
queue-4.19/0030-x86-speculation-mds-Fix-documentation-typo.patch
queue-4.19/0027-x86-speculation-mds-Add-mitigations-support-for-MDS.patch
queue-4.19/0020-x86-speculation-mds-Add-SMT-warning-message.patch
queue-4.19/0001-Documentation-l1tf-Fix-small-spelling-typo.patch
queue-4.19/0019-x86-speculation-Move-arch_smt_update-call-to-after-m.patch
queue-4.19/0026-s390-speculation-Support-mitigations-cmdline-option.patch
queue-4.19/0021-x86-speculation-mds-Fix-comment.patch