linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 04/20] x86/srso: Fix SBPB enablement for spec_rstack

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Date:   Mon,  4 Sep 2023 22:04:48 -0700
From:   Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>
To:     x86@...nel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Babu Moger <babu.moger@....com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>, David.Kaplan@....com,
        Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@...rix.com>,
        Nikolay Borisov <nik.borisov@...e.com>,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: [PATCH v3 04/20] x86/srso: Fix SBPB enablement for spec_rstack_overflow=off

If the user has requested no SRSO mitigation, other mitigations can use
the lighter-weight SBPB instead of IBPB.

Fixes: fb3bd914b3ec ("x86/srso: Add a Speculative RAS Overflow mitigation")
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
index b0ae985aa6a4..10499bcd4e39 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
@@ -2433,7 +2433,7 @@ static void __init srso_select_mitigation(void)
 
 	switch (srso_cmd) {
 	case SRSO_CMD_OFF:
-		return;
+		goto pred_cmd;
 
 	case SRSO_CMD_MICROCODE:
 		if (has_microcode) {
-- 
2.41.0