[PATCH 03/15] s390: report spectre mitigation via syslog

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[ Upstream commit bc035599718412cfba9249aa713f90ef13f13ee9 ]

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 <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 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 192e633a79d8..adec38c5f53b 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);
-- 
2.16.3




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