cpu: Ignore "mitigations" kernel parameter if CPU_MITIGATIONS=n

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2071621

[ Upstream commit ce0abef6a1d540acef85068e0e82bdf1fbeeb0e9 ]

Explicitly disallow enabling mitigations at runtime for kernels that were
built with CONFIG_CPU_MITIGATIONS=n, as some architectures may omit code
entirely if mitigations are disabled at compile time.

E.g. on x86, a large pile of Kconfigs are buried behind CPU_MITIGATIONS,
and trying to provide sane behavior for retroactively enabling mitigations
is extremely difficult, bordering on impossible.  E.g. page table isolation
and call depth tracking require build-time support, BHI mitigations will
still be off without additional kernel parameters, etc.

  [ bp: Touchups. ]

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240420000556.2645001-3-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Manuel Diewald <manuel.diewald@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
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Sean Christopherson
2024-04-19 17:05:55 -07:00
committed by Stefan Bader
parent e11b1ead32
commit 85bde021fd
4 changed files with 30 additions and 6 deletions
@@ -3403,6 +3403,9 @@
arch-independent options, each of which is an
aggregation of existing arch-specific options.
Note, "mitigations" is supported if and only if the
kernel was built with CPU_MITIGATIONS=y.
off
Disable all optional CPU mitigations. This
improves system performance, but it may also