#define pr_fmt(fmt)    "L1TF: " fmt
 
 #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KVM_INTEL)
-enum vmx_l1d_flush_state l1tf_vmx_mitigation __ro_after_init = VMENTER_L1D_FLUSH_AUTO;
+enum vmx_l1d_flush_state l1tf_vmx_mitigation = VMENTER_L1D_FLUSH_AUTO;
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(l1tf_vmx_mitigation);
 #endif
 
 
 
        l1tf_vmx_mitigation = l1tf;
 
-       if (l1tf == VMENTER_L1D_FLUSH_NEVER)
-               return 0;
+       if (l1tf != VMENTER_L1D_FLUSH_NEVER)
+               static_branch_enable(&vmx_l1d_should_flush);
+       else
+               static_branch_disable(&vmx_l1d_should_flush);
 
-       static_branch_enable(&vmx_l1d_should_flush);
        if (l1tf == VMENTER_L1D_FLUSH_ALWAYS)
                static_branch_enable(&vmx_l1d_flush_always);
+       else
+               static_branch_disable(&vmx_l1d_flush_always);
        return 0;
 }
 
 
        if (s) {
                for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(vmentry_l1d_param); i++) {
-                       if (!strcmp(s, vmentry_l1d_param[i].option))
+                       if (sysfs_streq(s, vmentry_l1d_param[i].option))
                                return vmentry_l1d_param[i].cmd;
                }
        }
        .set = vmentry_l1d_flush_set,
        .get = vmentry_l1d_flush_get,
 };
-module_param_cb(vmentry_l1d_flush, &vmentry_l1d_flush_ops, NULL, S_IRUGO);
+module_param_cb(vmentry_l1d_flush, &vmentry_l1d_flush_ops, NULL, 0644);
 
 struct kvm_vmx {
        struct kvm kvm;