Re: Linux 3.18.2 / xen 4.4.1 dom0 - microcode oops

From: Boris Ostrovsky
Date: Tue Jan 27 2015 - 17:56:25 EST


On 01/27/2015 05:12 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
Hey Boris,

On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 04:30:02PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 09:53:04AM -0500, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
Alternatively, we could return an error (-EINVAL?) from
microcode_init() when either of these two conditions is true.
Yeah, this should be the right fix.

James, does that fix your issue? (It should.)

---
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c
index 15c29096136b..36a83617eb21 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c
@@ -552,7 +552,7 @@ static int __init microcode_init(void)
int error;
if (paravirt_enabled() || dis_ucode_ldr)
- return 0;
+ return -EINVAL;
if (c->x86_vendor == X86_VENDOR_INTEL)
microcode_ops = init_intel_microcode();
would you do the honor and write a proper patch? You found the bug so...
:-D


Will do. This needs to go to stable as well, right?

-boris

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