6.1-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit a8cf700c17d9ca6cb8ee7dc5c9330dbac3948237 ]
Reading the 'spec_rstack_overflow' sysfs file can trigger an unnecessary
MSR write, and possibly even a (handled) exception if the microcode
hasn't been updated.
Avoid all that by just checking X86_FEATURE_IBPB_BRTYPE instead, which
gets set by srso_select_mitigation() if the updated microcode exists.
Fixes: fb3bd914b3ec ("x86/srso: Add a Speculative RAS Overflow mitigation")
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Borisov <nik.borisov@xxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/27d128899cb8aee9eb2b57ddc996742b0c1d776b.1693889988.git.jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
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arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
index 3a893ab398a01..5f38d60532a99 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
@@ -2692,7 +2692,7 @@ static ssize_t srso_show_state(char *buf)
return sysfs_emit(buf, "%s%s\n",
srso_strings[srso_mitigation],
- (cpu_has_ibpb_brtype_microcode() ? "" : ", no microcode"));
+ boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_IBPB_BRTYPE) ? "" : ", no microcode");
}
static ssize_t cpu_show_common(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
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