x86/speculation: Warn about Spectre v2 LFENCE mitigation
commit eafd987d upstream. With: f8a66d60 ("x86,bugs: Unconditionally allow spectre_v2=retpoline,amd") it became possible to enable the LFENCE "retpoline" on Intel. However, Intel doesn't recommend it, as it has some weaknesses compared to retpoline. Now AMD doesn't recommend it either. It can still be left available as a cmdline option. It's faster than retpoline but is weaker in certain scenarios -- particularly SMT, but even non-SMT may be vulnerable in some cases. So just unconditionally warn if the user requests it on the cmdline. [ bp: Massage commit message. ] Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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