[PATCH 1/2] cpu: Re-enable CPU mitigations by default for !X86 architectures

From: Sean Christopherson
Date: Tue Apr 16 2024 - 20:15:28 EST


Add a generic Kconfig, CPU_MITIGATIONS, to control whether or not CPU
mitigations are enabled by default, and force it on for all architectures
except x86. A recent commit to turn mitigations off by default if
SPECULATION_MITIGATIONS=n kinda sorta missed that "cpu_mitigations" is
completely generic, where as SPECULATION_MITIGATIONS is x86 specific.

Alternatively, SPECULATION_MITIGATIONS could simply be defined in common
code, but that creates weirdness for x86 because SPECULATION_MITIGATIONS
ends up being defined twice, and the default behavior would likely depend
on the arbitrary include order (if the two definitions diverged).

Ideally, CPU_MITIGATIONS would be unconditionally on by default for all
architectures, and manually turned off, but there is no way to unselect a
Kconfig.

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Closes: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240413115324.53303a68%40canb.auug.org.au
Fixes: f337a6a21e2f ("x86/cpu: Actually turn off mitigations by default for SPECULATION_MITIGATIONS=n")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 +
drivers/base/Kconfig | 3 +++
kernel/cpu.c | 4 ++--
3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 4474bf32d0a4..a0eca6313276 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -2490,6 +2490,7 @@ config PREFIX_SYMBOLS

menuconfig SPECULATION_MITIGATIONS
bool "Mitigations for speculative execution vulnerabilities"
+ select CPU_MITIGATIONS
default y
help
Say Y here to enable options which enable mitigations for
diff --git a/drivers/base/Kconfig b/drivers/base/Kconfig
index 2b8fd6bb7da0..dab19f15fa57 100644
--- a/drivers/base/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/base/Kconfig
@@ -191,6 +191,9 @@ config GENERIC_CPU_AUTOPROBE
config GENERIC_CPU_VULNERABILITIES
bool

+config CPU_MITIGATIONS
+ def_bool !X86
+
config SOC_BUS
bool
select GLOB
diff --git a/kernel/cpu.c b/kernel/cpu.c
index 07ad53b7f119..bb0ff275fb46 100644
--- a/kernel/cpu.c
+++ b/kernel/cpu.c
@@ -3207,8 +3207,8 @@ enum cpu_mitigations {
};

static enum cpu_mitigations cpu_mitigations __ro_after_init =
- IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SPECULATION_MITIGATIONS) ? CPU_MITIGATIONS_AUTO :
- CPU_MITIGATIONS_OFF;
+ IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CPU_MITIGATIONS) ? CPU_MITIGATIONS_AUTO :
+ CPU_MITIGATIONS_OFF;

static int __init mitigations_parse_cmdline(char *arg)
{
--
2.44.0.683.g7961c838ac-goog