From bc035599718412cfba9249aa713f90ef13f13ee9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Martin Schwidefsky Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 16:33:43 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] s390: report spectre mitigation via syslog Add a boot message if either of the spectre defenses is active. The message is "Spectre V2 mitigation: execute trampolines." or "Spectre V2 mitigation: limited branch prediction." Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky --- arch/s390/kernel/nospec-branch.c | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/nospec-branch.c b/arch/s390/kernel/nospec-branch.c index 192e633..adec38c 100644 --- a/arch/s390/kernel/nospec-branch.c +++ b/arch/s390/kernel/nospec-branch.c @@ -32,6 +32,16 @@ static int __init nospec_setup_early(char *str) } early_param("nospec", nospec_setup_early); +static int __init nospec_report(void) +{ + if (IS_ENABLED(CC_USING_EXPOLINE) && !nospec_disable) + pr_info("Spectre V2 mitigation: execute trampolines.\n"); + if (__test_facility(82, S390_lowcore.alt_stfle_fac_list)) + pr_info("Spectre V2 mitigation: limited branch prediction.\n"); + return 0; +} +arch_initcall(nospec_report); + #ifdef CONFIG_EXPOLINE int nospec_disable = IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_EXPOLINE_OFF); -- 2.7.4