cpu/speculation: Warn on unsupported mitigations= parameter
commit 1bf72720 upstream. Currently, if the user specifies an unsupported mitigation strategy on the kernel command line, it will be ignored silently. The code will fall back to the default strategy, possibly leaving the system more vulnerable than expected. This may happen due to e.g. a simple typo, or, for a stable kernel release, because not all mitigation strategies have been backported. Inform the user by printing a message. Fixes: 98af8452 ("cpu/speculation: Add 'mitigations=' cmdline option") Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190516070935.22546-1-geert@linux-m68k.orgSigned-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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