[PATCH v2 1/7] sysfs/cpu: Add "Unknown" vulnerability state

[Jeremy Linton]

There is a lot of variation in the Arm ecosystem. Because of this,
there exist possible cases where the kernel cannot authoritatively
determine if a machine is vulnerable.

Rather than guess the vulnerability status in cases where
the mitigation is disabled or the firmware isn't responding
correctly, we need to display an "Unknown" state.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu
index 9605dbd4b5b5..876103fddfa4 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu
@@ -495,6 +495,7 @@ Description:	Information about CPU vulnerabilities
 		"Not affected"	  CPU is not affected by the vulnerability
 		"Vulnerable"	  CPU is affected and no mitigation in effect
 		"Mitigation: $M"  CPU is affected and mitigation $M is in effect
+		"Unknown"    	  The kernel is unable to make a determination
 
 		Details about the l1tf file can be found in
 		Documentation/admin-guide/l1tf.rst
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