From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 012206a822a8b6ac09125bfaa210a95b9eb8f1c1 upstream. For new IBRS_ALL CPUs, the Enhanced IBRS check at the beginning of cpu_bugs_smt_update() causes the function to return early, unintentionally skipping the MDS and TAA logic. This is not a problem for MDS, because there appears to be no overlap between IBRS_ALL and MDS-affected CPUs. So the MDS mitigation would be disabled and nothing would need to be done in this function anyway. But for TAA, the TAA_MSG_SMT string will never get printed on Cascade Lake and newer. The check is superfluous anyway: when 'spectre_v2_enabled' is SPECTRE_V2_IBRS_ENHANCED, 'spectre_v2_user' is always SPECTRE_V2_USER_NONE, and so the 'spectre_v2_user' switch statement handles it appropriately by doing nothing. So just remove the check. Fixes: 1b42f017415b ("x86/speculation/taa: Add mitigation for TSX Async Abort") Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c @@ -882,10 +882,6 @@ static void update_mds_branch_idle(void) void arch_smt_update(void) { - /* Enhanced IBRS implies STIBP. No update required. */ - if (spectre_v2_enabled == SPECTRE_V2_IBRS_ENHANCED) - return; - mutex_lock(&spec_ctrl_mutex); switch (spectre_v2_user) {