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Josh Poimboeuf 074d726046 x86/speculation: Warn about Spectre v2 LFENCE mitigation
commit eafd987d4a upstream.

With:

  f8a66d608a ("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. ]

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-03-11 12:22:32 +01:00
arch x86/speculation: Warn about Spectre v2 LFENCE mitigation 2022-03-11 12:22:32 +01:00
block block-map: add __GFP_ZERO flag for alloc_page in function bio_copy_kern 2022-03-08 19:12:31 +01:00
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Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
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In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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