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

diff --git a/kernel/cpu.c b/kernel/cpu.c
index 077fde6fb953feddcb67e803dbed4e2469aab0c0..551db494f1530279e97a1b582d5db182eb3987f6 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/cpu.c
+++ b/kernel/cpu.c
@@ -2339,6 +2339,9 @@ static int __init mitigations_parse_cmdline(char *arg)
                cpu_mitigations = CPU_MITIGATIONS_AUTO;
        else if (!strcmp(arg, "auto,nosmt"))
                cpu_mitigations = CPU_MITIGATIONS_AUTO_NOSMT;
+       else
+               pr_crit("Unsupported mitigations=%s, system may still be vulnerable\n",
+                       arg);
 
        return 0;
 }