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x86/cpu: Actually turn off mitigations by default for SPECULATION_MITIGATIONS=n

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Initialize cpu_mitigations to CPU_MITIGATIONS_OFF if the kernel is built
with CONFIG_SPECULATION_MITIGATIONS=n, as the help text quite clearly
states that disabling SPECULATION_MITIGATIONS is supposed to turn off all
mitigations by default.

  │ If you say N, all mitigations will be disabled. You really
  │ should know what you are doing to say so.

As is, the kernel still defaults to CPU_MITIGATIONS_AUTO, which results in
some mitigations being enabled in spite of SPECULATION_MITIGATIONS=n.

Fixes: f43b9876e8 ("x86/retbleed: Add fine grained Kconfig knobs")
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Sneddon <daniel.sneddon@linux.intel.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240409175108.1512861-2-seanjc@google.com
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Sean Christopherson 2024-04-09 10:51:05 -07:00 committed by Ingo Molnar
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@ -3207,7 +3207,8 @@ enum cpu_mitigations {
};
static enum cpu_mitigations cpu_mitigations __ro_after_init =
CPU_MITIGATIONS_AUTO;
IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SPECULATION_MITIGATIONS) ? CPU_MITIGATIONS_AUTO :
CPU_MITIGATIONS_OFF;
static int __init mitigations_parse_cmdline(char *arg)
{