From: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.lin...@arm.com>

[ Upstream commit e5ce5e7267ddcbe13ab9ead2542524e1b7993e5a ]

There are various reasons, such as benchmarking, to disable spectrev2
mitigation on a machine. Provide a command-line option to do so.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.lin...@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poul...@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przyw...@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.mari...@arm.com>
Tested-by: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wah...@i2se.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <cor...@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.dea...@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheu...@linaro.org>
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt |  8 ++++----
 arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c                  | 13 +++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt 
b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index e8ddf0ef232e..cc2f5c9a8161 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2866,10 +2866,10 @@
                        (bounds check bypass). With this option data leaks
                        are possible in the system.
 
-       nospectre_v2    [X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E] Disable all mitigations for the 
Spectre variant 2
-                       (indirect branch prediction) vulnerability. System may
-                       allow data leaks with this option, which is equivalent
-                       to spectre_v2=off.
+       nospectre_v2    [X86,PPC_FSL_BOOK3E,ARM64] Disable all mitigations for
+                       the Spectre variant 2 (indirect branch prediction)
+                       vulnerability. System may allow data leaks with this
+                       option.
 
        nospec_store_bypass_disable
                        [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store 
Bypass vulnerability
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c
index 10571a378f4c..2394a105ebf4 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpu_errata.c
@@ -189,6 +189,14 @@ static void qcom_link_stack_sanitization(void)
                     : "=&r" (tmp));
 }
 
+static bool __nospectre_v2;
+static int __init parse_nospectre_v2(char *str)
+{
+       __nospectre_v2 = true;
+       return 0;
+}
+early_param("nospectre_v2", parse_nospectre_v2);
+
 static void
 enable_smccc_arch_workaround_1(const struct arm64_cpu_capabilities *entry)
 {
@@ -200,6 +208,11 @@ enable_smccc_arch_workaround_1(const struct 
arm64_cpu_capabilities *entry)
        if (!entry->matches(entry, SCOPE_LOCAL_CPU))
                return;
 
+       if (__nospectre_v2) {
+               pr_info_once("spectrev2 mitigation disabled by command line 
option\n");
+               return;
+       }
+
        if (psci_ops.smccc_version == SMCCC_VERSION_1_0)
                return;
 
-- 
2.20.1

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