[PATCH stable v4.4 1/8] powerpc/fsl: Enable runtime patching if nospectre_v2 boot arg is used

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commit 3bc8ea8603ae4c1e09aca8de229ad38b8091fcb3 upstream.

If the user choses not to use the mitigations, replace
the code sequence with nops.

Signed-off-by: Diana Craciun <diana.craciun@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_32.c | 1 +
 arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c | 1 +
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_32.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_32.c
index 5a9f035bcd6b..cb37f27bb928 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_32.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_32.c
@@ -323,6 +323,7 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
 	if ( ppc_md.progress ) ppc_md.progress("arch: exit", 0x3eab);
 
 	setup_barrier_nospec();
+	setup_spectre_v2();
 
 	paging_init();
 
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
index 6bb731ababc6..11590f6cb2f9 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c
@@ -737,6 +737,7 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
 		ppc_md.setup_arch();
 
 	setup_barrier_nospec();
+	setup_spectre_v2();
 
 	paging_init();
 
-- 
2.17.1




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