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Commit a8cf700c authored by Josh Poimboeuf's avatar Josh Poimboeuf Committed by Borislav Petkov (AMD)
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x86/srso: Fix srso_show_state() side effect



Reading the 'spec_rstack_overflow' sysfs file can trigger an unnecessary
MSR write, and possibly even a (handled) exception if the microcode
hasn't been updated.

Avoid all that by just checking X86_FEATURE_IBPB_BRTYPE instead, which
gets set by srso_select_mitigation() if the updated microcode exists.

Fixes: fb3bd914 ("x86/srso: Add a Speculative RAS Overflow mitigation")
Signed-off-by: default avatarJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarNikolay Borisov <nik.borisov@suse.com>
Acked-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/27d128899cb8aee9eb2b57ddc996742b0c1d776b.1693889988.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
parent 10f4c9b9
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