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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: [ 36/44] x86, microcode: Sanitize per-cpu microcode reloading interface
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:02:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120813220145.337264645@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120813220142.113186818@linuxfoundation.org>

From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

3.0-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
@@ -297,19 +297,31 @@ static ssize_t reload_store(struct sys_d
 			    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 22:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-13 22:02 [ 00/44] 3.0.41-stable review Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 01/44] [IA64] Redefine ATOMIC_INIT and ATOMIC64_INIT to drop the casts Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 02/44] SUNRPC: return negative value in case rpcbind client creation error Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 03/44] nilfs2: fix deadlock issue between chcp and thaw ioctls Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 04/44] pcdp: use early_ioremap/early_iounmap to access pcdp table Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 05/44] mm: fix wrong argument of migrate_huge_pages() in soft_offline_huge_page() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 06/44] ARM: 7467/1: mutex: use generic xchg-based implementation for ARMv6+ Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-15 14:02   ` Ben Hutchings
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 07/44] ARM: 7477/1: vfp: Always save VFP state in vfp_pm_suspend on UP Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-14 20:01   ` Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2012-08-15 14:05     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-15 14:50       ` Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 08/44] ARM: 7478/1: errata: extend workaround for erratum #720789 Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 09/44] ARM: 7479/1: mm: avoid NULL dereference when flushing gate_vma with VIVT caches Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 10/44] ALSA: hda - remove quirk for Dell Vostro 1015 Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-14  5:17   ` David Henningsson
2012-08-14  5:43     ` Takashi Iwai
2012-08-15 14:03     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 11/44] mm: mmu_notifier: fix freed page still mapped in secondary MMU Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 12/44] mac80211: cancel mesh path timer Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 13/44] x86, nops: Missing break resulting in incorrect selection on Intel Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 14/44] random: Add support for architectural random hooks Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 15/44] fix typo/thinko in get_random_bytes() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 16/44] random: Use arch_get_random_int instead of cycle counter if avail Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 17/44] random: Use arch-specific RNG to initialize the entropy store Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 18/44] random: Adjust the number of loops when initializing Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 19/44] drivers/char/random.c: fix boot id uniqueness race Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 20/44] random: make add_interrupt_randomness() do something sane Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 21/44] random: use lockless techniques in the interrupt path Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 22/44] random: create add_device_randomness() interface Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 23/44] usb: feed USB device information to the /dev/random driver Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 24/44] net: feed /dev/random with the MAC address when registering a device Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 25/44] random: use the arch-specific rng in xfer_secondary_pool Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 26/44] random: add new get_random_bytes_arch() function Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 27/44] random: add tracepoints for easier debugging and verification Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 28/44] MAINTAINERS: Theodore Tso is taking over the random driver Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 29/44] rtc: wm831x: Feed the write counter into device_add_randomness() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 30/44] mfd: wm831x: Feed the device UUID " Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 31/44] random: remove rand_initialize_irq() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 32/44] random: Add comment to random_initialize() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 33/44] dmi: Feed DMI table to /dev/random driver Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 34/44] random: mix in architectural randomness in extract_buf() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 35/44] x86, microcode: microcode_core.c simple_strtoul cleanup Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2012-08-15  0:26   ` [ 36/44] x86, microcode: Sanitize per-cpu microcode reloading interface Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2012-08-15 14:06     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-15 16:30       ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2012-08-15 18:26         ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 37/44] mm: hugetlbfs: close race during teardown of hugetlbfs shared page tables Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 38/44] ARM: mxs: Remove MMAP_MIN_ADDR setting from mxs_defconfig Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 39/44] ARM: pxa: remove irq_to_gpio from ezx-pcap driver Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 40/44] cfg80211: process pending events when unregistering net device Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 41/44] cfg80211: fix interface combinations check for ADHOC(IBSS) Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 42/44] e1000e: NIC goes up and immediately goes down Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 43/44] Input: wacom - Bamboo One 1024 pressure fix Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-08-13 22:02 ` [ 44/44] rt61pci: fix NULL pointer dereference in config_lna_gain Greg Kroah-Hartman

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