cpu/speculation: Warn on unsupported mitigations= parameter
authorGeert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Thu, 16 May 2019 07:09:35 +0000 (09:09 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 3 Jul 2019 11:14:46 +0000 (13:14 +0200)
commitb78ad2169282ae469eebfb35bfba9615f0d9c6cc
tree5b3178a6c392d2c5fd33b1920146bb67e9303952
parent27380331755f1b17a49cb3d2c7db43d10ec8749a
cpu/speculation: Warn on unsupported mitigations= parameter

commit 1bf72720281770162c87990697eae1ba2f1d917a upstream.

Currently, if the user specifies an unsupported mitigation strategy on the
kernel command line, it will be ignored silently.  The code will fall back
to the default strategy, possibly leaving the system more vulnerable than
expected.

This may happen due to e.g. a simple typo, or, for a stable kernel release,
because not all mitigation strategies have been backported.

Inform the user by printing a message.

Fixes: 98af8452945c5565 ("cpu/speculation: Add 'mitigations=' cmdline option")
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190516070935.22546-1-geert@linux-m68k.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
kernel/cpu.c