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Date:   Tue, 29 May 2018 16:46:40 +0200
From:   Michal =?UTF-8?B?U3VjaMOhbmVr?= <msuchanek@suse.de>
To:     Christophe LEROY <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/64s: Enhance the information in
 cpu_show_spectre_v1()
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On Tue, 29 May 2018 16:13:49 +0200
Christophe LEROY <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr> wrote:

> Le 28/05/2018 à 15:19, Michal Suchanek a écrit :
> > We now have barrier_nospec as mitigation so print it in
> > cpu_show_spectre_v1 when enabled.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@suse.de>
> > ---
> >   arch/powerpc/kernel/security.c | 5 ++++-
> >   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/security.c
> > b/arch/powerpc/kernel/security.c index 0239383c7e4d..a0c32d53980b
> > 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/security.c
> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/security.c
> > @@ -120,7 +120,10 @@ ssize_t cpu_show_spectre_v1(struct device
> > *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, c if
> > (!security_ftr_enabled(SEC_FTR_BNDS_CHK_SPEC_BAR)) return
> > sprintf(buf, "Not affected\n"); 
> > -	return sprintf(buf, "Vulnerable\n");
> > +	if (barrier_nospec_enabled)  
> 
> > +		return sprintf(buf, "Mitigation: __user pointer
> > sanitization\n");
> > +	else
> > +		return sprintf(buf, "Vulnerable\n");  
> 
> Checkpatch would tell you that an else is unneeded after a return. So 
> just leave it as it was before.

Where did you get your copy of checkpatch? The one in Linux tree does
not do that.

Thanks

Michal