Patch "x86/spectre: Simplify spectre_v2 command line parsing" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    x86/spectre: Simplify spectre_v2 command line parsing

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-simplify-spectre_v2-command-line-parsing.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 <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Thu Feb  8 03:32:24 CET 2018
From: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.de>
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2018 11:27:21 +0000
Subject: x86/spectre: Simplify spectre_v2 command line parsing

From: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.de>


(cherry picked from commit 9005c6834c0ffdfe46afa76656bd9276cca864f6)

[dwmw2: Use ARRAY_SIZE]

Signed-off-by: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.de>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: bp@alien8.de
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1517484441-1420-3-git-send-email-dwmw@amazon.co.uk
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c |   84 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
@@ -118,13 +118,13 @@ static inline const char *spectre_v2_mod
 static void __init spec2_print_if_insecure(const char *reason)
 {
 	if (boot_cpu_has_bug(X86_BUG_SPECTRE_V2))
-		pr_info("%s\n", reason);
+		pr_info("%s selected on command line.\n", reason);
 }
 
 static void __init spec2_print_if_secure(const char *reason)
 {
 	if (!boot_cpu_has_bug(X86_BUG_SPECTRE_V2))
-		pr_info("%s\n", reason);
+		pr_info("%s selected on command line.\n", reason);
 }
 
 static inline bool retp_compiler(void)
@@ -139,42 +139,68 @@ static inline bool match_option(const ch
 	return len == arglen && !strncmp(arg, opt, len);
 }
 
+static const struct {
+	const char *option;
+	enum spectre_v2_mitigation_cmd cmd;
+	bool secure;
+} mitigation_options[] = {
+	{ "off",               SPECTRE_V2_CMD_NONE,              false },
+	{ "on",                SPECTRE_V2_CMD_FORCE,             true },
+	{ "retpoline",         SPECTRE_V2_CMD_RETPOLINE,         false },
+	{ "retpoline,amd",     SPECTRE_V2_CMD_RETPOLINE_AMD,     false },
+	{ "retpoline,generic", SPECTRE_V2_CMD_RETPOLINE_GENERIC, false },
+	{ "auto",              SPECTRE_V2_CMD_AUTO,              false },
+};
+
 static enum spectre_v2_mitigation_cmd __init spectre_v2_parse_cmdline(void)
 {
 	char arg[20];
-	int ret;
+	int ret, i;
+	enum spectre_v2_mitigation_cmd cmd = SPECTRE_V2_CMD_AUTO;
+
+	if (cmdline_find_option_bool(boot_command_line, "nospectre_v2"))
+		return SPECTRE_V2_CMD_NONE;
+	else {
+		ret = cmdline_find_option(boot_command_line, "spectre_v2", arg,
+					  sizeof(arg));
+		if (ret < 0)
+			return SPECTRE_V2_CMD_AUTO;
 
-	ret = cmdline_find_option(boot_command_line, "spectre_v2", arg,
-				  sizeof(arg));
-	if (ret > 0)  {
-		if (match_option(arg, ret, "off")) {
-			goto disable;
-		} else if (match_option(arg, ret, "on")) {
-			spec2_print_if_secure("force enabled on command line.");
-			return SPECTRE_V2_CMD_FORCE;
-		} else if (match_option(arg, ret, "retpoline")) {
-			spec2_print_if_insecure("retpoline selected on command line.");
-			return SPECTRE_V2_CMD_RETPOLINE;
-		} else if (match_option(arg, ret, "retpoline,amd")) {
-			if (boot_cpu_data.x86_vendor != X86_VENDOR_AMD) {
-				pr_err("retpoline,amd selected but CPU is not AMD. Switching to AUTO select\n");
-				return SPECTRE_V2_CMD_AUTO;
-			}
-			spec2_print_if_insecure("AMD retpoline selected on command line.");
-			return SPECTRE_V2_CMD_RETPOLINE_AMD;
-		} else if (match_option(arg, ret, "retpoline,generic")) {
-			spec2_print_if_insecure("generic retpoline selected on command line.");
-			return SPECTRE_V2_CMD_RETPOLINE_GENERIC;
-		} else if (match_option(arg, ret, "auto")) {
+		for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(mitigation_options); i++) {
+			if (!match_option(arg, ret, mitigation_options[i].option))
+				continue;
+			cmd = mitigation_options[i].cmd;
+			break;
+		}
+
+		if (i >= ARRAY_SIZE(mitigation_options)) {
+			pr_err("unknown option (%s). Switching to AUTO select\n",
+			       mitigation_options[i].option);
 			return SPECTRE_V2_CMD_AUTO;
 		}
 	}
 
-	if (!cmdline_find_option_bool(boot_command_line, "nospectre_v2"))
+	if ((cmd == SPECTRE_V2_CMD_RETPOLINE ||
+	     cmd == SPECTRE_V2_CMD_RETPOLINE_AMD ||
+	     cmd == SPECTRE_V2_CMD_RETPOLINE_GENERIC) &&
+	    !IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RETPOLINE)) {
+		pr_err("%s selected but not compiled in. Switching to AUTO select\n",
+		       mitigation_options[i].option);
 		return SPECTRE_V2_CMD_AUTO;
-disable:
-	spec2_print_if_insecure("disabled on command line.");
-	return SPECTRE_V2_CMD_NONE;
+	}
+
+	if (cmd == SPECTRE_V2_CMD_RETPOLINE_AMD &&
+	    boot_cpu_data.x86_vendor != X86_VENDOR_AMD) {
+		pr_err("retpoline,amd selected but CPU is not AMD. Switching to AUTO select\n");
+		return SPECTRE_V2_CMD_AUTO;
+	}
+
+	if (mitigation_options[i].secure)
+		spec2_print_if_secure(mitigation_options[i].option);
+	else
+		spec2_print_if_insecure(mitigation_options[i].option);
+
+	return cmd;
 }
 
 /* Check for Skylake-like CPUs (for RSB handling) */


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from karahmed@amazon.de are

queue-4.9/kvm-vmx-allow-direct-access-to-msr_ia32_spec_ctrl.patch
queue-4.9/kvm-x86-add-ibpb-support.patch
queue-4.9/kvm-svm-allow-direct-access-to-msr_ia32_spec_ctrl.patch
queue-4.9/x86-cpufeatures-add-intel-feature-bits-for-speculation-control.patch
queue-4.9/x86-retpoline-simplify-vmexit_fill_rsb.patch
queue-4.9/x86-cpufeatures-clean-up-spectre-v2-related-cpuid-flags.patch
queue-4.9/x86-cpufeatures-add-cpuid_7_edx-cpuid-leaf.patch
queue-4.9/x86-cpufeature-blacklist-spec_ctrl-pred_cmd-on-early-spectre-v2-microcodes.patch
queue-4.9/x86-retpoline-avoid-retpolines-for-built-in-__init-functions.patch
queue-4.9/x86-cpuid-fix-up-virtual-ibrs-ibpb-stibp-feature-bits-on-intel.patch
queue-4.9/x86-cpufeatures-add-amd-feature-bits-for-speculation-control.patch
queue-4.9/x86-spectre-simplify-spectre_v2-command-line-parsing.patch
queue-4.9/x86-msr-add-definitions-for-new-speculation-control-msrs.patch
queue-4.9/x86-speculation-add-basic-ibpb-indirect-branch-prediction-barrier-support.patch
queue-4.9/kvm-vmx-emulate-msr_ia32_arch_capabilities.patch
queue-4.9/x86-pti-do-not-enable-pti-on-cpus-which-are-not-vulnerable-to-meltdown.patch