From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C2A5A6FBB for ; Tue, 10 Jan 2023 18:27:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 47565C433EF; Tue, 10 Jan 2023 18:27:55 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1673375275; bh=QlhaI9/s2EQZ3Ica7fZLpGbjmNEy1NFh+wztxGQIkbg=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=BAOIJnODtoJG9mjQvgRQg/1uKW3XAa/HV87uVNI2kVKQdxB+kh45jk0RgrCfBniEl FQled4H8UC2Lhp/aASSLd+a959yX9hHkjkxT9ywuJErVwtWCVN30faI6wL/62V7Tmf QV+QVj+AF8LFZUaPXMw4ASX5Jaw/dck/+rI5Urjg= From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , patches@lists.linux.dev, Ashok Raj , "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" , Thomas Gleixner Subject: [PATCH 5.15 096/290] x86/microcode/intel: Do not retry microcode reloading on the APs Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2023 19:03:08 +0100 Message-Id: <20230110180034.937263934@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.39.0 In-Reply-To: <20230110180031.620810905@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20230110180031.620810905@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.67 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: patches@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Ashok Raj commit be1b670f61443aa5d0d01782e9b8ea0ee825d018 upstream. The retries in load_ucode_intel_ap() were in place to support systems with mixed steppings. Mixed steppings are no longer supported and there is only one microcode image at a time. Any retries will simply reattempt to apply the same image over and over without making progress. [ bp: Zap the circumstantial reasoning from the commit message. ] Fixes: 06b8534cb728 ("x86/microcode: Rework microcode loading") Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221129210832.107850-3-ashok.raj@intel.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c | 8 +------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-) --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c @@ -659,7 +659,6 @@ void load_ucode_intel_ap(void) else iup = &intel_ucode_patch; -reget: if (!*iup) { patch = __load_ucode_intel(&uci); if (!patch) @@ -670,12 +669,7 @@ reget: uci.mc = *iup; - if (apply_microcode_early(&uci, true)) { - /* Mixed-silicon system? Try to refetch the proper patch: */ - *iup = NULL; - - goto reget; - } + apply_microcode_early(&uci, true); } static struct microcode_intel *find_patch(struct ucode_cpu_info *uci)