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authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2021-10-26 14:01:46 +0200
committerPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2021-10-28 23:25:29 +0200
commitf8a66d608a3e471e1202778c2a36cbdc96bae73b (patch)
treeaa0196edf65293f6b8daeeb7429195d776ec430a /arch
parentd4b5a5c993009ffeb5febe3b701da3faab6adb96 (diff)
x86,bugs: Unconditionally allow spectre_v2=retpoline,amd
Currently Linux prevents usage of retpoline,amd on !AMD hardware, this is unfriendly and gets in the way of testing. Remove this restriction. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Tested-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211026120310.487348118@infradead.org
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c7
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
index ecfca3bbcd96..ba43597f1027 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
@@ -882,13 +882,6 @@ static enum spectre_v2_mitigation_cmd __init spectre_v2_parse_cmdline(void)
return SPECTRE_V2_CMD_AUTO;
}
- if (cmd == SPECTRE_V2_CMD_RETPOLINE_AMD &&
- boot_cpu_data.x86_vendor != X86_VENDOR_HYGON &&
- boot_cpu_data.x86_vendor != X86_VENDOR_AMD) {
- pr_err("retpoline,amd selected but CPU is not AMD. Switching to AUTO select\n");
- return SPECTRE_V2_CMD_AUTO;
- }
-
spec_v2_print_cond(mitigation_options[i].option,
mitigation_options[i].secure);
return cmd;