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 8BEDF6FA0 for ; Mon, 16 Jan 2023 17:14:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1367AC433EF; Mon, 16 Jan 2023 17:14:01 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1673889242; bh=kCnWFqIJsJsLVNUsATSvvvUu5AIaJy/0EUf4PgVt0UA=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=vQOzz3pGoVEGzhvvToxiG0qZNtlDngZyItoYhrtcy+HQLg1iKIjxGlYEbj+xLdMjd KVMbfhAkTLRQsUwGtHofslCA2XXJr9GL6dxm6ZfKaahSK8+k0cz0jTZrKFsGqyueKI sp4GlTOtzdALERL3XqbeJ7hdtwgJ2O8P9xCPRJAk= 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 4.14 282/338] x86/microcode/intel: Do not retry microcode reloading on the APs Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2023 16:52:35 +0100 Message-Id: <20230116154833.379983219@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.39.0 In-Reply-To: <20230116154820.689115727@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20230116154820.689115727@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 @@ -662,7 +662,6 @@ void load_ucode_intel_ap(void) else iup = &intel_ucode_patch; -reget: if (!*iup) { patch = __load_ucode_intel(&uci); if (!patch) @@ -673,12 +672,7 @@ 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)