Of course it isn't until after I hit send to realize I missed the "-v2" flag
when I generated these patches! Sorry for the confusion!
On 10/28/24 16:50, Daniel Sneddon wrote:
> There are several mitigations that use the VERW instruction to clean
> up internal CPU buffers. Currently, each of these mitigations is
> treated independently, but if VERW is needed for one of the
> mitigations, it's on for all of them. This can lead to some confusion
> if a user tries to disable one of the mitigations, but it is left
> enabled for one of the others. The user needs to disable all 4 VERW-
> based mitigations. Warn the user when one or more VERW mitigations are
> disabled but not all of them. While we're messing with VERW
> mitigations, might as well simplify them and remove the need to call
> each of them twice.
>
> V2:
> Dropped the new knob previously introduced in the first patch (Borislav)
> Add warning if not all 4 mitigations states match (Borislav)
> Removed extra comment (Josh)
> Code clean-up (Josh)
>
>
> Daniel Sneddon (2):
> x86/bugs: Check VERW mitigations for consistency
> x86/bugs: Clean-up verw mitigations
>
> arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h | 2 +-
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 206 +++++++++++++------------------
> 2 files changed, 90 insertions(+), 118 deletions(-)
>