6.6-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Daniel Sneddon <daniel.sneddon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 04f4230e2f86a4e961ea5466eda3db8c1762004d upstream. The definition of spectre_bhi_state() incorrectly returns a const char * const. This causes the a compiler warning when building with W=1: warning: type qualifiers ignored on function return type [-Wignored-qualifiers] 2812 | static const char * const spectre_bhi_state(void) Remove the const qualifier from the pointer. Fixes: ec9404e40e8f ("x86/bhi: Add BHI mitigation knob") Reported-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Daniel Sneddon <daniel.sneddon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240409230806.1545822-1-daniel.sneddon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c @@ -2808,7 +2808,7 @@ static char *pbrsb_eibrs_state(void) } } -static const char * const spectre_bhi_state(void) +static const char *spectre_bhi_state(void) { if (!boot_cpu_has_bug(X86_BUG_BHI)) return "; BHI: Not affected";