cpu/speculation: Warn on unsupported mitigations= parameter
authorGeert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Thu, 16 May 2019 07:09:35 +0000 (09:09 +0200)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Wed, 26 Jun 2019 14:56:21 +0000 (16:56 +0200)
commit1bf72720281770162c87990697eae1ba2f1d917a
treec2bca252b3baf7cde85cea480b19f77d79301671
parent4b972a01a7da614b4796475f933094751a295a2f
cpu/speculation: Warn on unsupported mitigations= parameter

Currently, if the user specifies an unsupported mitigation strategy on the
kernel command line, it will be ignored silently.  The code will fall back
to the default strategy, possibly leaving the system more vulnerable than
expected.

This may happen due to e.g. a simple typo, or, for a stable kernel release,
because not all mitigation strategies have been backported.

Inform the user by printing a message.

Fixes: 98af8452945c5565 ("cpu/speculation: Add 'mitigations=' cmdline option")
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190516070935.22546-1-geert@linux-m68k.org
kernel/cpu.c