From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Date: Thu, 3 May 2018 15:03:30 -0700
Subject: x86/bugs: Make boot modes __ro_after_init
Patch-mainline: v4.17-rc7
Git-commit: f9544b2b076ca90d887c5ae5d74fab4c21bb7c13
References: bsc#1087082 CVE-2018-3639
There's no reason for these to be changed after boot.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
---
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c
@@ -130,7 +130,8 @@ static const char *spectre_v2_strings[]
#undef pr_fmt
#define pr_fmt(fmt) "Spectre V2 : " fmt
-static enum spectre_v2_mitigation spectre_v2_enabled = SPECTRE_V2_NONE;
+static enum spectre_v2_mitigation spectre_v2_enabled __ro_after_init =
+ SPECTRE_V2_NONE;
void x86_spec_ctrl_set(u64 val)
{
@@ -425,7 +426,7 @@ retpoline_auto:
#undef pr_fmt
#define pr_fmt(fmt) "Speculative Store Bypass: " fmt
-static enum ssb_mitigation ssb_mode = SPEC_STORE_BYPASS_NONE;
+static enum ssb_mitigation ssb_mode __ro_after_init = SPEC_STORE_BYPASS_NONE;
/* The kernel command line selection */
enum ssb_mitigation_cmd {