Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Bugs clean-up

From: Pawan Gupta
Date: Thu Aug 21 2025 - 02:18:33 EST


On Tue, Aug 19, 2025 at 02:21:55PM -0500, David Kaplan wrote:
> Patches 1-3 focus on cleaning up parameter parsing. Most mitigations use
> early_param but a few older ones do not and look at boot_command_line
> directly. Modify those to be consistent with the newer ones.
>
> Patch 4 adds missing attack vector controls for spec store bypass.
>
> Patch 5 cleans up straggling unnecessary calls to cpu_mitigations_off().
>
> Changes from v1
> - Removed spec_*_print_cond() functions
> - Fixed bugs pointed out by Pawan
> - Added last 2 patches
>
> David Kaplan (5):
> x86/bugs: Use early_param for spectre_v2_user
> x86/bugs: Use early_param for spectre_v2
> x86/bugs: Simplify SSB cmdline parsing
> x86/bugs: Add attack vector controls for SSB
> x86/bugs: Remove uses of cpu_mitigations_off()

For the series:

Reviewed-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>