From 3862830dd5b8d6769466f648cf259766b0f686a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2021 14:01:46 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] x86,bugs: Unconditionally allow spectre_v2=retpoline,amd commit f8a66d608a3e471e1202778c2a36cbdc96bae73b 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) Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf Tested-by: Alexei Starovoitov Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211026120310.487348118@infradead.org [fllinden@amazon.com: backported to 4.14 (no Hygon in 4.14)] Signed-off-by: Frank van der Linden Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 6 ------ 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c index 44853d2d9a0e..57f180a65de3 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c @@ -839,12 +839,6 @@ 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_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;