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x86/spectre_v2: Remove remaining references to lfence mitigation
authorAlejandro Jimenez <alejandro.j.jimenez@oracle.com>
Thu, 13 Sep 2018 16:53:03 +0000 (12:53 -0400)
committerBrian Maly <brian.maly@oracle.com>
Mon, 22 Oct 2018 17:16:44 +0000 (13:16 -0400)
commit9af21ef340f7b1f62afc62e2fadc87c5572f594b
treeb73ae37247059d4a19aa8d098b0dc8f2d26ba21a
parent9782e5576366b0133393212765bf65da741dc5b2
x86/spectre_v2: Remove remaining references to lfence mitigation

The LFENCE mitigation alone was deemed to be insufficient and the
related code was mostly removed by commit cf3b86bc07619
(Revert "x86/spec_ctrl: Add 'nolfence' knob to disable fallback for
spectre_v2 mitigation")

This patch cleans up two additional references that still exist.

Orabug: 28631590
CVE: CVE-2018-15572

Signed-off-by: Alejandro Jimenez <alejandro.j.jimenez@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Kanda <mark.kanda@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Darren Kenny <darren.kenny@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Maly <brian.maly@oracle.com>
arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs_64.c