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SubjectRE: [PATCH 1/2] x86, microcode: Sanitize per-cpu microcode reloading interface
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> From: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>
> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 18:03:30 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH 1/2] x86, microcode: Sanitize per-cpu microcode
> reloading interface
> To: X86-ML <x86@kernel.org>
> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
> Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, LKML
> <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Andreas Herrmann
> <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>, Borislav Petkov
> <borislav.petkov@amd.com>, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
> <hmh@hmh.eng.br>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
> stable@vger.kernel.org
>
> From: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
>
> Microcode reloading in a per-core manner is a very bad idea for both
> major x86 vendors. And the thing is, we have such interface with which
> we can end up with different microcode versions applied on different
> cores of an otherwise homogeneous wrt (family,model,stepping) system.
>
> So turn off the possibility of doing that per core and allow it only
> system-wide.
>
> This is a minimal fix which we'd like to see in stable too thus the
> more-or-less arbitrary decision to allow system-wide reloading only on
> the BSP:
>
> $ echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/microcode/reload
> ...
>
> and disable the interface on the other cores:
>
> $ echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu23/microcode/reload
> -bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
>
> Also, allowing the reload only from one CPU (the BSP in
> that case) doesn't allow the reload procedure to degenerate
> into an O(n^2) deal when triggering reloads from all
> /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/microcode/reload sysfs nodes
> simultaneously.
>
> A more generic fix will follow.
>
> Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c | 26 +++++++++++++++++++-------
> 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c
> b/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c
> index fbdfc6917180..24b852b61be3 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c
> @@ -298,19 +298,31 @@ static ssize_t reload_store(struct device *dev,
> const char *buf, size_t size)
> {
> unsigned long val;
> - int cpu = dev->id;
> - ssize_t ret = 0;
> + int cpu;
> + ssize_t ret = 0, tmp_ret;
> +
> + /* allow reload only from the BSP */
> + if (boot_cpu_data.cpu_index != dev->id)
> + return -EINVAL;

With the /sys/devices/system/cpu/microcode/reload interface in your patch 2/2, this will be broken, right? With the new interface, reload_store() can be executed on any cpu or dev. I think you need to remove this check if working with the patch 2/2.

Thanks.

-Fenghua


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