Patch "x86/microcode/AMD: Do not load when running on a hypervisor" 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/AMD: Do not load when running on a hypervisor

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-amd-do-not-load-when-running-on-a-hypervisor.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 a15a753539eca8ba243d576f02e7ca9c4b7d7042 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2016 17:44:13 +0100
Subject: x86/microcode/AMD: Do not load when running on a hypervisor

From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>

commit a15a753539eca8ba243d576f02e7ca9c4b7d7042 upstream.

Doing so is completely void of sense for multiple reasons so prevent
it. Set dis_ucode_ldr to true and thus disable the microcode loader by
default to address xen pv guests which execute the AP path but not the
BSP path.

By having it turned off by default, the APs won't run into the loader
either.

Also, check CPUID(1).ECX[31] which hypervisors set. Well almost, not the
xen pv one. That one gets the aforementioned "fix".

Also, improve the detection method by caching the final decision whether
to continue loading in dis_ucode_ldr and do it once on the BSP. The APs
then simply test that value.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Tested-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Tested-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161218164414.9649-4-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Rolf Neugebauer <rolf.neugebauer@docker.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c |   28 +++++++++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 #define MICROCODE_VERSION	"2.01"
 
 static struct microcode_ops	*microcode_ops;
-static bool dis_ucode_ldr;
+static bool dis_ucode_ldr = true;
 
 /*
  * Synchronization.
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ struct cpu_info_ctx {
 static bool __init check_loader_disabled_bsp(void)
 {
 	static const char *__dis_opt_str = "dis_ucode_ldr";
+	u32 a, b, c, d;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
 	const char *cmdline = (const char *)__pa_nodebug(boot_command_line);
@@ -85,8 +86,23 @@ static bool __init check_loader_disabled
 	bool *res = &dis_ucode_ldr;
 #endif
 
-	if (cmdline_find_option_bool(cmdline, option))
-		*res = true;
+	if (!have_cpuid_p())
+		return *res;
+
+	a = 1;
+	c = 0;
+	native_cpuid(&a, &b, &c, &d);
+
+	/*
+	 * CPUID(1).ECX[31]: reserved for hypervisor use. This is still not
+	 * completely accurate as xen pv guests don't see that CPUID bit set but
+	 * that's good enough as they don't land on the BSP path anyway.
+	 */
+	if (c & BIT(31))
+		return *res;
+
+	if (cmdline_find_option_bool(cmdline, option) <= 0)
+		*res = false;
 
 	return *res;
 }
@@ -118,9 +134,6 @@ void __init load_ucode_bsp(void)
 	if (check_loader_disabled_bsp())
 		return;
 
-	if (!have_cpuid_p())
-		return;
-
 	vendor = x86_cpuid_vendor();
 	family = x86_cpuid_family();
 
@@ -154,9 +167,6 @@ void load_ucode_ap(void)
 	if (check_loader_disabled_ap())
 		return;
 
-	if (!have_cpuid_p())
-		return;
-
 	vendor = x86_cpuid_vendor();
 	family = x86_cpuid_family();
 


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

queue-4.9/x86-microcode-amd-do-not-load-when-running-on-a-hypervisor.patch