Re: [PATCH v2 03/35] x86/bugs: Add AUTO mitigations for mds/taa/mmio/rfds

[Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>]

On Thu, Nov 14, 2024 at 02:59:34PM +0000, Kaplan, David wrote:
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> > From: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2024 8:27 PM
> > To: Kaplan, David <David.Kaplan@amd.com>
> > Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>; Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>; Peter
> > Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>; Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>; Ingo
> > Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>; Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>;
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> > Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 03/35] x86/bugs: Add AUTO mitigations for
> > mds/taa/mmio/rfds
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> > On Tue, Nov 05, 2024 at 03:54:23PM -0600, David Kaplan wrote:
> > > @@ -1995,6 +2004,7 @@ void cpu_bugs_smt_update(void)
> > >               update_mds_branch_idle();
> > >               break;
> > >       case MDS_MITIGATION_OFF:
> > > +     case MDS_MITIGATION_AUTO:
> >
> > This implies AUTO and OFF are similar, which is counter intuitive.
> > While mitigation selection code ...
> >
> > > +     if (mds_mitigation == MDS_MITIGATION_AUTO)
> > > +             mds_mitigation = MDS_MITIGATION_FULL;
> > > +
> >
> > ... indicates that AUTO is equivalent to FULL. So, I think AUTO should be handled
> > the same way as FULL in cpu_bugs_smt_update() as well.
> >
> > Same for TAA and MMIO below.
> >
> 
> The mitigation is never actually AUTO by the time we call
> cpu_bugs_smt_update(), since this happens after cpu_select_mitigations().
> I had to add the case statement here so the switch statement was
> complete, but this case will never be hit.
> 
> Should I put a comment here about that?  Or is a default case the better
> way to handle this?

My suggestion would be to treat AUTO as FULL, and move it up with FULL:

         switch (mds_mitigation) {
         case MDS_MITIGATION_FULL:
+        case MDS_MITIGATION_AUTO:
         case MDS_MITIGATION_VMWERV:
                 if (sched_smt_active() && !boot_cpu_has(X86_BUG_MSBDS_ONLY))
                         pr_warn_once(MDS_MSG_SMT);
                 update_mds_branch_idle();
                 break;
         case MDS_MITIGATION_OFF:
                 break;
         }