Dear Linux folks,


On the server board Asus KGPE-D16 with AMD Opteron 6278 processor 
updating the microcode update in the firmware from 0x0600062e to 
0x0600063e seems to cause a general protection fault with Linux 4.14.87 
and 4.20-rc7.

> 46.859: [    7.573240] microcode: CPU31: patch_level=0x0600063e
> 46.859: [    7.578507] microcode: Microcode Update Driver: v2.2.
> 46.860: [    7.578539] sched_clock: Marking stable (6510054745, 1068444659)->(7999876773, -421377369)
> 46.860: [    7.593013] registered taskstats version 1
> 46.861: [    7.598091] rtc_cmos 00:00: setting system clock to 2000-01-01 08:01:51 UTC (946713711)
> 46.862: [    7.606575] ALSA device list:
> 46.862: [    7.609802]   No soundcards found.
> 46.865: [    7.615887] Freeing unused kernel image memory: 1564K
> 46.871: [    7.627073] Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 20480k
> 46.872: [    7.634366] Freeing unused kernel image memory: 2016K
> 46.873: [    7.640297] Freeing unused kernel image memory: 584K
> 46.874: [    7.645521] Run /init as init process
> 46.877: [    7.652262] general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
> 46.877: [    7.657931] CPU: 18 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/18 Not tainted 4.20.0-rc7.mx64.237 #1
> 46.877: [    7.665514] Hardware name: ASUS KGPE-D16/KGPE-D16, BIOS 4.9-103-g637bef2037 01/02/2019
> 46.878: [    7.673804] RIP: 0010:switch_mm_irqs_off+0xb2/0x640
> 46.878: [    7.678948] Code: 48 c1 ef 09 83 e7 01 48 09 c7 65 48 8b 05 8e 34 fc 7e 48 39 c7 74 15 48 09 f8 a8 01 74 0e b9 49 00 00 00 b8 01 00 00 00 31 d2 <0f> 30 65 48 89 3d 6c 34 fc 7e 8b 05 9a ef a7 01 85 c0 0f 8f 41 04
> 46.879: [    7.698394] RSP: 0018:ffffc90006343e20 EFLAGS: 00010046
> 46.879: [    7.703844] RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffff88981ca0b800 RCX: 0000000000000049
> 46.879: [    7.711238] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff88981b87cf80 RDI: ffff88981ca0b800
> 46.880: [    7.718665] RBP: ffffc90006343e70 R08: 00000001c81bec00 R09: 0000000000000000
> 46.880: [    7.726092] R10: ffffc90006343e88 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffffff82479b40
> 46.880: [    7.733494] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000012 R15: ffff88981dd50080
> 46.881: [    7.740853] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88981fa80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> 46.881: [    7.749318] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> 46.881: [    7.755281] CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000000240a000 CR4: 00000000000406e0
> 46.881: [    7.762761] Call Trace:
> 46.881: [    7.765369]  ? __schedule+0x1b9/0x7b0
> 46.882: [    7.769253]  __schedule+0x1b9/0x7b0
> 46.882: [    7.772930]  schedule_idle+0x1e/0x40
> 46.882: [    7.776744]  do_idle+0x146/0x200
> 46.882: [    7.780181]  cpu_startup_entry+0x19/0x20
> 46.883: [    7.784274]  start_secondary+0x183/0x1b0
> 46.883: [    7.788409]  secondary_startup_64+0xa4/0xb0
> 46.883: [    7.792766] Modules linked in:
> 46.883: [    7.796105] ---[ end trace a423e363fe1ecf67 ]---
> 46.884: [    7.800939] RIP: 0010:switch_mm_irqs_off+0xb2/0x640
> 46.884: [    7.806048] Code: 48 c1 ef 09 83 e7 01 48 09 c7 65 48 8b 05 8e 34 fc 7e 48 39 c7 74 15 48 09 f8 a8 01 74 0e b9 49 00 00 00 b8 01 00 00 00 31 d2 <0f> 30 65 48 89 3d 6c 34 fc 7e 8b 05 9a ef a7 01 85 c0 0f 8f 41 04
> 46.884: [    7.825440] RSP: 0018:ffffc90006343e20 EFLAGS: 00010046
> 46.885: [    7.830855] RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffff88981ca0b800 RCX: 0000000000000049
> 46.885: [    7.838230] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff88981b87cf80 RDI: ffff88981ca0b800
> 46.885: [    7.845614] RBP: ffffc90006343e70 R08: 00000001c81bec00 R09: 0000000000000000
> 46.886: [    7.853047] R10: ffffc90006343e88 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffffff82479b40
> 46.886: [    7.860427] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000012 R15: ffff88981dd50080
> 46.886: [    7.867862] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88981fa80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> 46.886: [    7.876320] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> 46.887: [    7.882351] CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000000240a000 CR4: 00000000000406e0
> 46.887: [    7.889746] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task!
> 46.888: [    7.896907] Kernel Offset: disabled
> 46.888: [    7.900558] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task! ]---

Please find the whole log, including the coreboot messages, attached. 
The time stamps in the beginning are from the script `readserial.py` 
from the SeaBIOS repository.

Do you have an idea what is going on, and how to fix it?


Kind regards,

Paul