Re: [PATCH v4 2/5] cpu/speculation: Fix CPU mitigation defaults for !x86

[Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>]

On Fri, Apr 19, 2024, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> CPU speculative execution mitigations were inadvertently disabled on
> non-x86 arches by the following commit:
> 
>  f337a6a21e2f ("x86/cpu: Actually turn off mitigations by default for SPECULATION_MITIGATIONS=n")
> 
> Fix it by replacing CONFIG_SPECULATION_MITIGATIONS with a new generic
> CONFIG_CPU_MITIGATIONS option and moving the x86-specific mitigations to
> a separate menu which depends on CONFIG_CPU_MITIGATIONS.

Ah drat, I didn't check my mailbox until after Cc'ing Linus my own version[*].

I don't have a strong preference between the two, though I do think it's worth
nothing that this will (obvioulsy) allow disabling mitigations at compile time
on all architectures, which may or may not be desirable.

[*] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240420000556.2645001-2-seanjc@google.com

> Fixes: f337a6a21e2f ("x86/cpu: Actually turn off mitigations by default for SPECULATION_MITIGATIONS=n")
> Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
> Reported-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
> Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
> Closes: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240413115324.53303a68%40canb.auug.org.au
> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
> ---
>  arch/Kconfig     | 10 ++++++++++
>  arch/x86/Kconfig | 15 +++------------
>  kernel/cpu.c     |  4 ++--
>  3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig
> index 9f066785bb71..5c96849eb957 100644
> --- a/arch/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/Kconfig
> @@ -11,6 +11,16 @@ source "arch/$(SRCARCH)/Kconfig"
>  
>  menu "General architecture-dependent options"
>  
> +config CPU_MITIGATIONS
> +	bool "Mitigations for CPU speculative execution vulnerabilities"
> +	default y
> +	help
> +	  Say Y here to enable mitigations for CPU speculative execution
> +	  vulnerabilities.
> +
> +	  If you say N, all mitigations will be disabled. You really
> +	  should know what you are doing to say so.