Commit 54a2bd02 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 eafd987d upstream.

With:

  f8a66d60 ("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: I6f3a4c7855097b7d3248b5f73d22259d16bbbfb8
parent f1b1f893
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