On 20/09/19 23:24, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > We can't assume the SPEC_CTRL msr is zero at boot because it could be > left enabled by a previous kernel booted with > spec_store_bypass_disable=on. > > Without this fix a boot with spec_store_bypass_disable=on followed by > a kexec boot with spec_store_bypass_disable=off would erroneously and > unexpectedly leave bit 2 set in SPEC_CTRL. > > Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx> Can you send this out separately, so that Thomas et al. can pick it up as a bug fix? Thanks, Paolo