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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>,
	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: [ 49/65] x86, microcode: Sanitize per-cpu microcode reloading interface
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:14:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120813221419.296425620@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120813221414.965154048@linuxfoundation.org>

From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

3.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>

commit c9fc3f778a6a215ace14ee556067c73982b6d40f upstream.

Microcode reloading in a per-core manner is a very bad idea for both
major x86 vendors. And the thing is, we have such interface with which
we can end up with different microcode versions applied on different
cores of an otherwise homogeneous wrt (family,model,stepping) system.

So turn off the possibility of doing that per core and allow it only
system-wide.

This is a minimal fix which we'd like to see in stable too thus the
more-or-less arbitrary decision to allow system-wide reloading only on
the BSP:

$ echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/microcode/reload
...

and disable the interface on the other cores:

$ echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu23/microcode/reload
-bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument

Also, allowing the reload only from one CPU (the BSP in
that case) doesn't allow the reload procedure to degenerate
into an O(n^2) deal when triggering reloads from all
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/microcode/reload sysfs nodes
simultaneously.

A more generic fix will follow.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340280437-7718-2-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c |   26 +++++++++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c
@@ -298,19 +298,31 @@ static ssize_t reload_store(struct devic
 			    const char *buf, size_t size)
 {
 	unsigned long val;
-	int cpu = dev->id;
-	ssize_t ret = 0;
+	int cpu;
+	ssize_t ret = 0, tmp_ret;
+
+	/* allow reload only from the BSP */
+	if (boot_cpu_data.cpu_index != dev->id)
+		return -EINVAL;
 
 	ret = kstrtoul(buf, 0, &val);
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
 
-	if (val == 1) {
-		get_online_cpus();
-		if (cpu_online(cpu))
-			ret = reload_for_cpu(cpu);
-		put_online_cpus();
+	if (val != 1)
+		return size;
+
+	get_online_cpus();
+	for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
+		tmp_ret = reload_for_cpu(cpu);
+		if (tmp_ret != 0)
+			pr_warn("Error reloading microcode on CPU %d\n", cpu);
+
+		/* save retval of the first encountered reload error */
+		if (!ret)
+			ret = tmp_ret;
 	}
+	put_online_cpus();
 
 	if (!ret)
 		ret = size;



  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-08-13 22:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-13 22:13 [ 00/65] 3.4.9-stable review Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:13 ` [ 01/65] [IA64] Redefine ATOMIC_INIT and ATOMIC64_INIT to drop the casts Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:13 ` [ 02/65] asus-wmi: use ASUS_WMI_METHODID_DSTS2 as default DSTS ID Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:13 ` [ 03/65] sunrpc: clnt: Add missing braces Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:13 ` [ 04/65] SUNRPC: return negative value in case rpcbind client creation error Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:13 ` [ 05/65] nilfs2: fix deadlock issue between chcp and thaw ioctls Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:13 ` [ 06/65] media: ene_ir: Fix driver initialisation Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:13 ` [ 07/65] pcdp: use early_ioremap/early_iounmap to access pcdp table Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:13 ` [ 08/65] mm: fix wrong argument of migrate_huge_pages() in soft_offline_huge_page() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:13 ` [ 09/65] ARM: 7466/1: disable interrupt before spinning endlessly Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:13 ` [ 10/65] ARM: 7467/1: mutex: use generic xchg-based implementation for ARMv6+ Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-15  4:29   ` Ben Hutchings
2012-08-15  9:10     ` Will Deacon
2012-08-13 22:13 ` [ 11/65] ARM: 7476/1: vfp: only clear vfp state for current cpu in vfp_pm_suspend Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:13 ` [ 12/65] ARM: 7477/1: vfp: Always save VFP state in vfp_pm_suspend on UP Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:13 ` [ 13/65] ARM: 7478/1: errata: extend workaround for erratum #720789 Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:13 ` [ 14/65] ARM: 7479/1: mm: avoid NULL dereference when flushing gate_vma with VIVT caches Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:13 ` [ 15/65] ARM: 7480/1: only call smp_send_stop() on SMP Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:14 ` [ 16/65] ARM: Fix undefined instruction exception handling Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:14 ` [ 17/65] ALSA: hda - add dock support for Thinkpad T430s Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:14 ` [ 18/65] ALSA: hda - add dock support for Thinkpad X230 Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:14 ` [ 19/65] ALSA: hda - remove quirk for Dell Vostro 1015 Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:14 ` [ 20/65] ALSA: hda - Fix double quirk for Quanta FL1 / Lenovo Ideapad Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:14 ` [ 21/65] mm: mmu_notifier: fix freed page still mapped in secondary MMU Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:14 ` [ 22/65] md/raid1: dont abort a resync on the first badblock Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:14 ` [ 23/65] video/smscufx: fix line counting in fb_write Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:14 ` [ 24/65] ore: Fix out-of-bounds access in _ios_obj() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:14 ` [ 25/65] ACPI processor: Fix tick_broadcast_mask online/offline regression Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:14 ` [ 26/65] mac80211: cancel mesh path timer Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:14 ` [ 27/65] ath9k: Add PID/VID support for AR1111 Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:14 ` [ 28/65] wireless: reg: restore previous behaviour of chan->max_power calculations Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:14 ` [ 29/65] x86, nops: Missing break resulting in incorrect selection on Intel Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:14 ` [ 30/65] random: make add_interrupt_randomness() do something sane Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:14 ` [ 31/65] random: use lockless techniques in the interrupt path Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:14 ` [ 32/65] random: create add_device_randomness() interface Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:14 ` [ 33/65] usb: feed USB device information to the /dev/random driver Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:14 ` [ 34/65] net: feed /dev/random with the MAC address when registering a device Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:14 ` [ 35/65] random: use the arch-specific rng in xfer_secondary_pool Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:14 ` [ 36/65] random: add new get_random_bytes_arch() function Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:14 ` [ 37/65] random: add tracepoints for easier debugging and verification Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:14 ` [ 38/65] MAINTAINERS: Theodore Tso is taking over the random driver Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:14 ` [ 39/65] rtc: wm831x: Feed the write counter into device_add_randomness() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:14 ` [ 40/65] mfd: wm831x: Feed the device UUID " Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:14 ` [ 41/65] random: remove rand_initialize_irq() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:14 ` [ 42/65] random: Add comment to random_initialize() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:14 ` [ 43/65] dmi: Feed DMI table to /dev/random driver Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:14 ` [ 44/65] random: mix in architectural randomness in extract_buf() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:14 ` [ 45/65] HID: multitouch: add support for Novatek touchscreen Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:14 ` [ 46/65] HID: add support for Cypress barcode scanner 04B4:ED81 Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:14 ` [ 47/65] HID: add ASUS AIO keyboard model AK1D Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:14 ` [ 48/65] x86, microcode: microcode_core.c simple_strtoul cleanup Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:14 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2012-08-13 22:14 ` [ 50/65] mm: hugetlbfs: close race during teardown of hugetlbfs shared page tables Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:14 ` [ 51/65] target: Add range checking to UNMAP emulation Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:14 ` [ 52/65] target: Fix reading of data length fields for UNMAP commands Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:14 ` [ 53/65] target: Fix possible integer underflow in UNMAP emulation Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:14 ` [ 54/65] target: Check number of unmap descriptors against our limit Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:14 ` [ 55/65] ARM: mxs: Remove MMAP_MIN_ADDR setting from mxs_defconfig Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:14 ` [ 56/65] ARM: dts: imx53-ard: add regulators for lan9220 Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:14 ` [ 57/65] ARM: pxa: remove irq_to_gpio from ezx-pcap driver Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:14 ` [ 58/65] cfg80211: process pending events when unregistering net device Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:14 ` [ 59/65] cfg80211: fix interface combinations check for ADHOC(IBSS) Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:14 ` [ 60/65] tun: dont zeroize sock->file on detach Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:14 ` [ 61/65] iwlwifi: disable greenfield transmissions as a workaround Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:14 ` [ 62/65] e1000e: NIC goes up and immediately goes down Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:14 ` [ 63/65] Input: eeti_ts: pass gpio value instead of IRQ Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:14 ` [ 64/65] Input: wacom - Bamboo One 1024 pressure fix Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:14 ` [ 65/65] rt61pci: fix NULL pointer dereference in config_lna_gain Greg Kroah-Hartman

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