From: Sean Christopherson Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2024 17:51:05 +0000 (-0700) Subject: x86/cpu: Actually turn off mitigations by default for SPECULATION_MITIGATIONS=n X-Git-Tag: v6.9-rc4~2^2~10 X-Git-Url: https://git.kernel.dk/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f337a6a21e2fd67eadea471e93d05dd37baaa9be;p=linux-2.6-block.git x86/cpu: Actually turn off mitigations by default for SPECULATION_MITIGATIONS=n Initialize cpu_mitigations to CPU_MITIGATIONS_OFF if the kernel is built with CONFIG_SPECULATION_MITIGATIONS=n, as the help text quite clearly states that disabling SPECULATION_MITIGATIONS is supposed to turn off all mitigations by default. │ If you say N, all mitigations will be disabled. You really │ should know what you are doing to say so. As is, the kernel still defaults to CPU_MITIGATIONS_AUTO, which results in some mitigations being enabled in spite of SPECULATION_MITIGATIONS=n. Fixes: f43b9876e857 ("x86/retbleed: Add fine grained Kconfig knobs") Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Reviewed-by: Daniel Sneddon Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Linus Torvalds Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240409175108.1512861-2-seanjc@google.com --- diff --git a/kernel/cpu.c b/kernel/cpu.c index 8f6affd051f7..07ad53b7f119 100644 --- a/kernel/cpu.c +++ b/kernel/cpu.c @@ -3207,7 +3207,8 @@ enum cpu_mitigations { }; static enum cpu_mitigations cpu_mitigations __ro_after_init = - CPU_MITIGATIONS_AUTO; + IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SPECULATION_MITIGATIONS) ? CPU_MITIGATIONS_AUTO : + CPU_MITIGATIONS_OFF; static int __init mitigations_parse_cmdline(char *arg) {