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x86,bugs: Unconditionally allow spectre_v2=retpoline,amd

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commit f8a66d608a upstream.

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
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Peter Zijlstra 2021-10-26 14:01:46 +02:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 97581b56b5
commit 206cfe2dac
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@ -845,13 +845,6 @@ 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;