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Commit 1bf72720 authored by Geert Uytterhoeven's avatar Geert Uytterhoeven Committed by Thomas Gleixner
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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: 98af8452 ("cpu/speculation: Add 'mitigations=' cmdline option")
Signed-off-by: default avatarGeert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: default avatarJosh 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
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