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authorPawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>2025-06-11 10:30:03 -0700
committerBorislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>2025-06-23 12:26:57 +0200
commit8374a2719df2a00781e6821e373d7de71390d1b4 (patch)
tree4518b09781127deaa4e857daa1a6437e6b63fcef /arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
parent7e44909e0ea8346ba08b244ecc275fc3394e2b8e (diff)
x86/bugs: Introduce cdt_possible()
In preparation to allow ITS to also enable stuffing aka Call Depth Tracking (CDT) independently of retbleed, introduce a helper cdt_possible(). Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250611-eibrs-fix-v4-5-5ff86cac6c61@linux.intel.com
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c15
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
index e861e8884d6b..387610ad222d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
@@ -1119,6 +1119,19 @@ early_param("nospectre_v1", nospectre_v1_cmdline);
enum spectre_v2_mitigation spectre_v2_enabled __ro_after_init = SPECTRE_V2_NONE;
+/* Depends on spectre_v2 mitigation selected already */
+static inline bool cdt_possible(enum spectre_v2_mitigation mode)
+{
+ if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MITIGATION_CALL_DEPTH_TRACKING) ||
+ !IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MITIGATION_RETPOLINE))
+ return false;
+
+ if (mode == SPECTRE_V2_RETPOLINE)
+ return true;
+
+ return false;
+}
+
#undef pr_fmt
#define pr_fmt(fmt) "RETBleed: " fmt
@@ -1267,7 +1280,7 @@ static void __init retbleed_update_mitigation(void)
retbleed_mitigation = RETBLEED_MITIGATION_STUFF;
if (retbleed_mitigation == RETBLEED_MITIGATION_STUFF &&
- spectre_v2_enabled != SPECTRE_V2_RETPOLINE) {
+ !cdt_possible(spectre_v2_enabled)) {
pr_err("WARNING: retbleed=stuff depends on spectre_v2=retpoline\n");
retbleed_mitigation = RETBLEED_MITIGATION_NONE;
}