From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:46326 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751738AbeBHCoe (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Feb 2018 21:44:34 -0500 Subject: Patch "x86/spectre: Check CONFIG_RETPOLINE in command line parser" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree To: douly.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com, dwmw@amazon.co.uk, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, misono.tomohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, tglx@linutronix.de Cc: , From: Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2018 03:38:27 +0100 Message-ID: <1518057507209102@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled x86/spectre: Check CONFIG_RETPOLINE in command line parser to the 4.9-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: x86-spectre-check-config_retpoline-in-command-line-parser.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let know about it. >>From foo@baz Thu Feb 8 03:30:27 CET 2018 From: Dou Liyang Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 14:13:50 +0800 Subject: x86/spectre: Check CONFIG_RETPOLINE in command line parser From: Dou Liyang (cherry picked from commit 9471eee9186a46893726e22ebb54cade3f9bc043) The spectre_v2 option 'auto' does not check whether CONFIG_RETPOLINE is enabled. As a consequence it fails to emit the appropriate warning and sets feature flags which have no effect at all. Add the missing IS_ENABLED() check. Fixes: da285121560e ("x86/spectre: Add boot time option to select Spectre v2 mitigation") Signed-off-by: Dou Liyang Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: ak@linux.intel.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: Tomohiro" Cc: dave.hansen@intel.com Cc: bp@alien8.de Cc: arjan@linux.intel.com Cc: dwmw@amazon.co.uk Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/f5892721-7528-3647-08fb-f8d10e65ad87@cn.fujitsu.com Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c @@ -212,10 +212,10 @@ static void __init spectre_v2_select_mit return; case SPECTRE_V2_CMD_FORCE: - /* FALLTRHU */ case SPECTRE_V2_CMD_AUTO: - goto retpoline_auto; - + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RETPOLINE)) + goto retpoline_auto; + break; case SPECTRE_V2_CMD_RETPOLINE_AMD: if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RETPOLINE)) goto retpoline_amd; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from douly.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com are queue-4.9/x86-spectre-check-config_retpoline-in-command-line-parser.patch