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[4.9,07/38] x86/speculation: Merge one test in spectre_v2_user_select_mitigation()

Message ID 20220310140808.351995623@linuxfoundation.org
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Greg KH March 10, 2022, 2:13 p.m. UTC 
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>

commit a5ce9f2bb665d1d2b31f139a02dbaa2dfbb62fa6 upstream.

Merge the test whether the CPU supports STIBP into the test which
determines whether STIBP is required. Thus try to simplify what is
already an insane logic.

Remove a superfluous newline in a comment, while at it.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Anthony Steinhauser <asteinhauser@google.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200615065806.GB14668@zn.tnic
[fllinden@amazon.com: fixed contextual conflict (comment) for 4.19]
Signed-off-by: Frank van der Linden <fllinden@amazon.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c |   13 ++++---------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
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--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
@@ -755,10 +755,12 @@  spectre_v2_user_select_mitigation(enum s
 	}
 
 	/*
-	 * If enhanced IBRS is enabled or SMT impossible, STIBP is not
+	 * If no STIBP, enhanced IBRS is enabled or SMT impossible, STIBP is not
 	 * required.
 	 */
-	if (!smt_possible || spectre_v2_enabled == SPECTRE_V2_IBRS_ENHANCED)
+	if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_STIBP) ||
+	    !smt_possible ||
+	    spectre_v2_enabled == SPECTRE_V2_IBRS_ENHANCED)
 		return;
 
 	/*
@@ -770,12 +772,6 @@  spectre_v2_user_select_mitigation(enum s
 	    boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_AMD_STIBP_ALWAYS_ON))
 		mode = SPECTRE_V2_USER_STRICT_PREFERRED;
 
-	/*
-	 * If STIBP is not available, clear the STIBP mode.
-	 */
-	if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_STIBP))
-		mode = SPECTRE_V2_USER_NONE;
-
 	spectre_v2_user_stibp = mode;
 
 set_mode:
@@ -1254,7 +1250,6 @@  static int ib_prctl_set(struct task_stru
 		if (spectre_v2_user_ibpb == SPECTRE_V2_USER_NONE &&
 		    spectre_v2_user_stibp == SPECTRE_V2_USER_NONE)
 			return 0;
-
 		/*
 		 * With strict mode for both IBPB and STIBP, the instruction
 		 * code paths avoid checking this task flag and instead,