Patch "x86/microcode/intel: Disable late loading on model 79" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    x86/microcode/intel: Disable late loading on model 79

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     x86-microcode-intel-disable-late-loading-on-model-79.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 723f2828a98c8ca19842042f418fb30dd8cfc0f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 13:12:25 +0200
Subject: x86/microcode/intel: Disable late loading on model 79

From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>

commit 723f2828a98c8ca19842042f418fb30dd8cfc0f7 upstream.

Blacklist Broadwell X model 79 for late loading due to an erratum.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171018111225.25635-1-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c |   19 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
 #include <linux/mm.h>
 
 #include <asm/microcode_intel.h>
+#include <asm/intel-family.h>
 #include <asm/processor.h>
 #include <asm/tlbflush.h>
 #include <asm/setup.h>
@@ -1046,6 +1047,18 @@ static int get_ucode_fw(void *to, const
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static bool is_blacklisted(unsigned int cpu)
+{
+	struct cpuinfo_x86 *c = &cpu_data(cpu);
+
+	if (c->x86 == 6 && c->x86_model == INTEL_FAM6_BROADWELL_X) {
+		pr_err_once("late loading on model 79 is disabled.\n");
+		return true;
+	}
+
+	return false;
+}
+
 static enum ucode_state request_microcode_fw(int cpu, struct device *device,
 					     bool refresh_fw)
 {
@@ -1054,6 +1067,9 @@ static enum ucode_state request_microcod
 	const struct firmware *firmware;
 	enum ucode_state ret;
 
+	if (is_blacklisted(cpu))
+		return UCODE_NFOUND;
+
 	sprintf(name, "intel-ucode/%02x-%02x-%02x",
 		c->x86, c->x86_model, c->x86_mask);
 
@@ -1078,6 +1094,9 @@ static int get_ucode_user(void *to, cons
 static enum ucode_state
 request_microcode_user(int cpu, const void __user *buf, size_t size)
 {
+	if (is_blacklisted(cpu))
+		return UCODE_NFOUND;
+
 	return generic_load_microcode(cpu, (void *)buf, size, &get_ucode_user);
 }
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bp@suse.de are

queue-4.9/x86-microcode-intel-disable-late-loading-on-model-79.patch