On 2018/9/5 17:13, Borislav Petkov wrote:
static const char *spectre_v2_strings[] = {
[SPECTRE_V2_NONE] = "Vulnerable",
[SPECTRE_V2_RETPOLINE_MINIMAL] = "Vulnerable: Minimal generic ASM retpoline",
- [SPECTRE_V2_RETPOLINE_MINIMAL_AMD] = "Vulnerable: Minimal AMD ASM retpoline",
+ [SPECTRE_V2_RETPOLINE_MINIMAL_LFENCE] = "Vulnerable: Minimal LFENCE ASM retpoline",
[SPECTRE_V2_RETPOLINE_GENERIC] = "Mitigation: Full generic retpoline",
- [SPECTRE_V2_RETPOLINE_AMD] = "Mitigation: Full AMD retpoline",
+ [SPECTRE_V2_RETPOLINE_LFENCE] = "Mitigation: Full LFENCE retpoline",
[SPECTRE_V2_IBRS_ENHANCED] = "Mitigation: Enhanced IBRS",
};
This is user-visible and with all the back'n'forth and backporting
and the whole security fiasco, I don't want to have another source of
confusion. You'll have to live with it saying "AMD" in dmesg
....
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ static const struct {
{ "off", SPECTRE_V2_CMD_NONE, false },
{ "on", SPECTRE_V2_CMD_FORCE, true },
{ "retpoline", SPECTRE_V2_CMD_RETPOLINE, false },
- { "retpoline,amd", SPECTRE_V2_CMD_RETPOLINE_AMD, false },
+ { "retpoline,lfence", SPECTRE_V2_CMD_RETPOLINE_LFENCE, false },
{ "retpoline,generic", SPECTRE_V2_CMD_RETPOLINE_GENERIC, false },
{ "auto", SPECTRE_V2_CMD_AUTO, false },
};
This even more so. Those are command line strings which we're still
communicating to people, even. So no, it needs to remain "retpoline,amd"
on Hygon.
And then to not confuse people staring at the code either, we can drop
this change too:
- SPECTRE_V2_CMD_RETPOLINE_AMD,
+ SPECTRE_V2_CMD_RETPOLINE_LFENCE,
Which leaves this patch only with the addition of the vendor tests. The
other stuff you can drop.
That's reasonable. To avoid the confusion, will only leave the vendor
testing for Hygon and drop the other changes, which also minimize the
code modification.
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Regards,
Pu Wen