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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert.lkml@gmail.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: x86, microcode: BUG: microcode update that changes x86_capability
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 16:56:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140925145655.GA28201@nazgul.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140925144025.GA14030@khazad-dum.debian.net>

On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 11:40:25AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> At this point, what alternatives are left?

Here's what we could do:

* Install microcode to /lib/firmware/...

* Refuse to update the microcode and tell the user that she needs to reboot.

* Reboot and load the microcode

For that to work though, we'd need to detect the that we're freshly
booting and only then load the microcode (if we're coming in later,
we should refuse because something linking to libpthread might've run
already).

Now, we need to think about how to detect that reliably, if at all
possible.

The other thing we could do is backport early ucode loading...

Hmm, I'm not crazy about both possibilities though, TBH.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.
--

  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-25 14:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-18 13:52 x86, microcode: BUG: microcode update that changes x86_capability Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-09-18 19:14 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-09-18 19:53   ` Chuck Ebbert
2014-09-18 19:55     ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-18 20:06       ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-09-19  0:13         ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-09-19  0:23           ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-09-19  0:28             ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-19  1:00               ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-09-19  8:03                 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-09-19 11:00             ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-09-19 11:29               ` Borislav Petkov
2014-09-19 12:54                 ` Chuck Ebbert
2014-09-19 13:14                   ` Josh Boyer
2014-09-19 13:37                     ` Chuck Ebbert
2014-09-19 15:00                   ` Borislav Petkov
2014-09-19 16:13                     ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-09-19 16:54                       ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-09-19 16:42                     ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-09-23 20:00                       ` Borislav Petkov
2014-09-24 14:56                         ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-09-24 15:00                           ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-09-24 17:45                             ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-09-24 17:48                               ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-09-24 18:59                                 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-09-24 19:34                                   ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-09-25  8:57                               ` Borislav Petkov
2014-09-25  8:51                           ` Borislav Petkov
2014-09-25 11:36                             ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-09-25 12:10                               ` Borislav Petkov
2014-09-25 14:40                                 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-09-25 14:56                                   ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2014-09-25 15:30                                     ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-09-25 15:50                                       ` Borislav Petkov
2014-09-25 16:41                                         ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-09-25 16:57                                           ` Borislav Petkov
2014-09-25 17:09                                             ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-09-19 13:51                 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-09-19 14:49                   ` Borislav Petkov
2014-09-19 17:22                     ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-09-19 22:35               ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-09-29 11:51                 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-09-19  9:56     ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-09-19 16:11   ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-09-22  0:37 ` Andi Kleen
2014-09-22  0:51   ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-22  0:58     ` Andi Kleen

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