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Commit c8803feb authored by Josh Poimboeuf's avatar Josh Poimboeuf Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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UPSTREAM: x86/speculation: Warn about Spectre v2 LFENCE mitigation



commit eafd987d4a82c7bb5aa12f0e3b4f8f3dea93e678 upstream.

With:

  f8a66d608a3e ("x86,bugs: Unconditionally allow spectre_v2=retpoline,amd")

it became possible to enable the LFENCE "retpoline" on Intel. However,
Intel doesn't recommend it, as it has some weaknesses compared to
retpoline.

Now AMD doesn't recommend it either.

It can still be left available as a cmdline option. It's faster than
retpoline but is weaker in certain scenarios -- particularly SMT, but
even non-SMT may be vulnerable in some cases.

So just unconditionally warn if the user requests it on the cmdline.

  [ bp: Massage commit message. ]

Bug: 215557547
Signed-off-by: default avatarJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@google.com>
Change-Id: Id0ebfa64b54e3030fd064cc58cccd496739fc223
parent 69aa4eee
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