linux_dsm_epyc7002/arch/x86
Borislav Petkov c9fc3f778a x86, microcode: Sanitize per-cpu microcode reloading interface
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>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340280437-7718-2-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
2012-07-01 10:24:05 -07:00
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boot x86, efi stub: Add .reloc section back into image 2012-06-07 09:52:33 -07:00
configs
crypto crypto: aesni-intel - fix unaligned cbc decrypt for x86-32 2012-05-31 20:53:22 +10:00
ia32 x86, compat: Use test_thread_flag(TIF_IA32) in compat signal delivery 2012-06-14 18:16:04 -07:00
include/asm Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2012-06-29 10:29:54 -07:00
kernel x86, microcode: Sanitize per-cpu microcode reloading interface 2012-07-01 10:24:05 -07:00
kvm KVM: MMU: fix huge page adapted on non-PAE host 2012-05-28 17:41:15 +03:00
lguest
lib Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2012-06-29 10:29:54 -07:00
math-emu
mm x86/mm: Fix some kernel-doc warnings 2012-06-11 10:54:45 +02:00
net
oprofile
pci Features: 2012-05-24 16:02:08 -07:00
platform kmsg - kmsg_dump() use iterator to receive log buffer content 2012-06-15 14:53:59 -07:00
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syscalls syscalls, x86: add __NR_kcmp syscall 2012-05-31 17:49:32 -07:00
tools x86/decoder: Fix bsr/bsf/jmpe decoding with operand-size prefix 2012-06-06 08:54:18 +02:00
um x86, um: Correct syscall table type attributes breaking gcc 4.8 2012-06-09 12:51:09 -07:00
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video
xen Five bug-fixes: 2012-06-15 17:17:15 -07:00
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Kconfig x86, efi: Add EFI boot stub documentation 2012-06-01 09:11:41 -07:00
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