Re: [PATCH v5 12/12] x86/bugs: Add a separate config for missing mitigation

[Breno Leitao]

On Thu, Nov 09, 2023 at 02:43:56PM -0800, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 10:09:17AM -0700, Breno Leitao wrote:
> > > I'm thinking CONFIG_MITIGATION_SPECTRE_V2 should also affect whether the spectre v2 user
> > > mitigation gets enabled.
> > 
> > Makes sense, would something like this be enough?
> 
> Looks good to me.
> 
> While you're at it, for consistency can you add a cpu_mitigations_off()
> check to spectre_v2_parse_user_cmdline()?

Good catch. I think we might want to do it in
`spectre_v2_user_select_mitigation()`, but let me test better and send it.

Since this is not dependent on this patch series, I will send this as an
idividual patch, to avoiding growing this patchset much (currently at 13
patches).

Thanks