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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 10 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index fb8752b42ec8..274b71a6fcf9 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -6582,6 +6582,8 @@ Selecting 'on' will also enable the mitigation against user space to user space task attacks. + Selecting specific mitigation does not force enable + user mitigations. Selecting 'off' will disable both the kernel and the user space protections. diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c index 346bebff3f6c..4386aa6c69e1 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c @@ -1308,9 +1308,13 @@ static __ro_after_init enum spectre_v2_mitigation_cmd spectre_v2_cmd; static enum spectre_v2_user_cmd __init spectre_v2_parse_user_cmdline(void) { + enum spectre_v2_user_cmd mode; char arg[20]; int ret, i; + mode = IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MITIGATION_SPECTRE_V2) ? + SPECTRE_V2_USER_CMD_AUTO : SPECTRE_V2_USER_CMD_NONE; + switch (spectre_v2_cmd) { case SPECTRE_V2_CMD_NONE: return SPECTRE_V2_USER_CMD_NONE; @@ -1323,7 +1327,7 @@ spectre_v2_parse_user_cmdline(void) ret = cmdline_find_option(boot_command_line, "spectre_v2_user", arg, sizeof(arg)); if (ret < 0) - return SPECTRE_V2_USER_CMD_AUTO; + return mode; for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(v2_user_options); i++) { if (match_option(arg, ret, v2_user_options[i].option)) { @@ -1333,8 +1337,8 @@ spectre_v2_parse_user_cmdline(void) } } - pr_err("Unknown user space protection option (%s). Switching to AUTO select\n", arg); - return SPECTRE_V2_USER_CMD_AUTO; + pr_err("Unknown user space protection option (%s). Switching to default\n", arg); + return mode; } static inline bool spectre_v2_in_ibrs_mode(enum spectre_v2_mitigation mode) |