From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B5F5C433F5 for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2022 14:22:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S238264AbiCJOX1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Mar 2022 09:23:27 -0500 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:56852 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S243430AbiCJOWB (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Mar 2022 09:22:01 -0500 Received: from dfw.source.kernel.org (dfw.source.kernel.org [139.178.84.217]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 450DFB91D3; Thu, 10 Mar 2022 06:20:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.kernel.org (relay.kernel.org [52.25.139.140]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by dfw.source.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C898561CEE; Thu, 10 Mar 2022 14:20:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D4B4AC340E8; Thu, 10 Mar 2022 14:20:44 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1646922045; bh=hqtcupg/S7vlWPIHEZ3+ea8d0QaSg8jJW+0Mknfouuk=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=0zHTI+Ab6mTNQ5eY6g+XQ3k+Nk2EFgAlADBY+Liip4Y3+nKkMWd3JwWV/c5ebaWny 4Q13qUDRkZ/Ledrg/lSBKGL+Cmm1UTRg/UsHjIJWB9xTOQQrYE1GUfQGQBj0VcJcGO EUmCPP2gNmKIU6M0UptSSWvkrT2L9+J3GQ1lNHJw= From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" , Borislav Petkov , Josh Poimboeuf , Alexei Starovoitov , Frank van der Linden Subject: [PATCH 4.14 02/31] x86,bugs: Unconditionally allow spectre_v2=retpoline,amd Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2022 15:18:15 +0100 Message-Id: <20220310140807.600031247@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.35.1 In-Reply-To: <20220310140807.524313448@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20220310140807.524313448@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.66 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org From: Peter Zijlstra commit f8a66d608a3e471e1202778c2a36cbdc96bae73b upstream. Currently Linux prevents usage of retpoline,amd on !AMD hardware, this is unfriendly and gets in the way of testing. Remove this restriction. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf Tested-by: Alexei Starovoitov Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211026120310.487348118@infradead.org [fllinden@amazon.com: backported to 4.14 (no Hygon in 4.14)] Signed-off-by: Frank van der Linden Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 6 ------ 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-) --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c @@ -839,12 +839,6 @@ static enum spectre_v2_mitigation_cmd __ return SPECTRE_V2_CMD_AUTO; } - 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; - } - spec_v2_print_cond(mitigation_options[i].option, mitigation_options[i].secure); return cmd;