[PATCH AUTOSEL 5.15 25/44] selftests/powerpc/spectre_v2: Return skip code when miss_percent is high

Sasha Levin sashal at kernel.org
Tue Jan 18 04:01:08 AEDT 2022


From: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo at canonical.com>

[ Upstream commit 3c42e9542050d49610077e083c7c3f5fd5e26820 ]

A mis-match between reported and actual mitigation is not restricted to the
Vulnerable case. The guest might also report the mitigation as "Software
count cache flush" and the host will still mitigate with branch cache
disabled.

So, instead of skipping depending on the detected mitigation, simply skip
whenever the detected miss_percent is the expected one for a fully
mitigated system, that is, above 95%.

Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo at canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211207130557.40566-1-cascardo@canonical.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal at kernel.org>
---
 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/security/spectre_v2.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/security/spectre_v2.c b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/security/spectre_v2.c
index adc2b7294e5fd..83647b8277e7d 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/security/spectre_v2.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/security/spectre_v2.c
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ int spectre_v2_test(void)
 			 * We are not vulnerable and reporting otherwise, so
 			 * missing such a mismatch is safe.
 			 */
-			if (state == VULNERABLE)
+			if (miss_percent > 95)
 				return 4;
 
 			return 1;
-- 
2.34.1



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