Re: [PATCH] x86/bugs: Remove X86_BUG_MMIO_UNKNOWN
From: Pawan Gupta
Date: Mon Apr 14 2025 - 12:51:19 EST
On Mon, Apr 14, 2025 at 05:09:51PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> From: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Whack this thing because:
>
> - the "unknown" handling is done only for this vuln and not for the
> others
>
> - it doesn't do anything besides reporting things differently. It
> doesn't apply any mitigations - it is simply causing unnecessary
> complications to the code which don't bring anything besides
> maintenance overhead to what is already a very nasty spaghetti pile
>
> - all the currently unaffected CPUs can also be in "unknown" status so
> there's no need for special handling here
>
> so get rid of it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>