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Author SHA1 Message Date
Al Viro
5a19095103 use less confusing names for iov_iter direction initializers
[ Upstream commit de4eda9de2d957ef2d6a8365a01e26a435e958cb ]

READ/WRITE proved to be actively confusing - the meanings are
"data destination, as used with read(2)" and "data source, as
used with write(2)", but people keep interpreting those as
"we read data from it" and "we write data to it", i.e. exactly
the wrong way.

Call them ITER_DEST and ITER_SOURCE - at least that is harder
to misinterpret...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Stable-dep-of: 6dd88fd59da8 ("vhost-scsi: unbreak any layout for response")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2023-02-09 11:28:04 +01:00
Ashok Raj
db10ca17bb x86/microcode/intel: Do not retry microcode reloading on the APs
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: 06b8534cb7 ("x86/microcode: Rework microcode loading")
Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221129210832.107850-3-ashok.raj@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2023-01-07 11:11:47 +01:00
Borislav Petkov
8c61eafd22 x86/microcode: Remove ->request_microcode_user()
181b6f40e9 ("x86/microcode: Rip out the OLD_INTERFACE")

removed the old microcode loading interface but forgot to remove the
related ->request_microcode_user() functionality which it uses.

Rip it out now too.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220825075445.28171-1-bp@alien8.de
2022-08-26 11:56:08 +02:00
Jithu Joseph
d3287fb0d3 x86/microcode/intel: Expose collect_cpu_info_early() for IFS
IFS is a CPU feature that allows a binary blob, similar to microcode,
to be loaded and consumed to perform low level validation of CPU
circuitry. In fact, it carries the same Processor Signature
(family/model/stepping) details that are contained in Intel microcode
blobs.

In support of an IFS driver to trigger loading, validation, and running
of these tests blobs, make the functionality of cpu_signatures_match()
and collect_cpu_info_early() available outside of the microcode driver.

Add an "intel_" prefix and drop the "_early" suffix from
collect_cpu_info_early() and EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() it. Add
declaration to x86 <asm/cpu.h>

Make cpu_signatures_match() an inline function in x86 <asm/cpu.h>,
and also give it an "intel_" prefix.

No functional change intended.

Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jithu Joseph <jithu.joseph@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220506225410.1652287-2-tony.luck@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
2022-05-12 15:35:29 +02:00
Borislav Petkov
9d48960414 x86/microcode: Use the firmware_loader built-in API
The microcode loader has been looping through __start_builtin_fw down to
__end_builtin_fw to look for possibly built-in firmware for microcode
updates.

Now that the firmware loader code has exported an API for looping
through the kernel's built-in firmware section, use it and drop the x86
implementation in favor.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211021155843.1969401-4-mcgrof@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2021-10-22 14:13:50 +02:00
Chen Yu
1a371e67dc x86/microcode/intel: Check patch signature before saving microcode for early loading
Currently, scan_microcode() leverages microcode_matches() to check
if the microcode matches the CPU by comparing the family and model.
However, the processor stepping and flags of the microcode signature
should also be considered when saving a microcode patch for early
update.

Use find_matching_signature() in scan_microcode() and get rid of the
now-unused microcode_matches() which is a good cleanup in itself.

Complete the verification of the patch being saved for early loading in
save_microcode_patch() directly. This needs to be done there too because
save_mc_for_early() will call save_microcode_patch() too.

The second reason why this needs to be done is because the loader still
tries to support, at least hypothetically, mixed-steppings systems and
thus adds all patches to the cache that belong to the same CPU model
albeit with different steppings.

For example:

  microcode: CPU: sig=0x906ec, pf=0x2, rev=0xd6
  microcode: mc_saved[0]: sig=0x906e9, pf=0x2a, rev=0xd6, total size=0x19400, date = 2020-04-23
  microcode: mc_saved[1]: sig=0x906ea, pf=0x22, rev=0xd6, total size=0x19000, date = 2020-04-27
  microcode: mc_saved[2]: sig=0x906eb, pf=0x2, rev=0xd6, total size=0x19400, date = 2020-04-23
  microcode: mc_saved[3]: sig=0x906ec, pf=0x22, rev=0xd6, total size=0x19000, date = 2020-04-27
  microcode: mc_saved[4]: sig=0x906ed, pf=0x22, rev=0xd6, total size=0x19400, date = 2020-04-23

The patch which is being saved for early loading, however, can only be
the one which fits the CPU this runs on so do the signature verification
before saving.

 [ bp: Do signature verification in save_microcode_patch()
       and rewrite commit message. ]

Fixes: ec400ddeff ("x86/microcode_intel_early.c: Early update ucode on Intel's CPU")
Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208535
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201113015923.13960-1-yu.c.chen@intel.com
2020-11-17 10:33:18 +01:00
Borislav Petkov
811ae8ba6d x86/microcode/intel: Issue the revision updated message only on the BSP
... in order to not pollute dmesg with a line for each updated microcode
engine.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jon Grimm <Jon.Grimm@amd.com>
Cc: kanth.ghatraju@oracle.com
Cc: konrad.wilk@oracle.com
Cc: Mihai Carabas <mihai.carabas@oracle.com>
Cc: patrick.colp@oracle.com
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190824085341.GC16813@zn.tnic
2019-10-01 16:06:35 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
2874c5fd28 treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 152
Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
  the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
  your option any later version

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-or-later

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 3029 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070032.746973796@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-05-30 11:26:32 -07:00
Jann Horn
7e94a7b659 x86/microcode/intel: Refactor Intel microcode blob loading
Change generic_load_microcode() to use the iov_iter API instead of a
clumsy open-coded version which has to pay attention to __user data
or kernel data, depending on the loading method. This allows to avoid
explicit casting between user and kernel pointers.

Because the iov_iter API makes it hard to read the same location twice,
as a side effect, also fix a double-read of the microcode header (which
could e.g. lead to out-of-bounds reads in microcode_sanity_check()).

Not that it matters much, only root is allowed to load microcode
anyway...

 [ bp: Massage a bit, sort function-local variables. ]

Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190404111128.131157-1-jannh@google.com
2019-04-10 22:40:25 +02:00
Filippo Sironi
8da38ebaad x86/microcode: Update the new microcode revision unconditionally
Handle the case where microcode gets loaded on the BSP's hyperthread
sibling first and the boot_cpu_data's microcode revision doesn't get
updated because of early exit due to the siblings sharing a microcode
engine.

For that, simply write the updated revision on all CPUs unconditionally.

Signed-off-by: Filippo Sironi <sironi@amazon.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: prarit@redhat.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1533050970-14385-1-git-send-email-sironi@amazon.de
2018-09-02 14:10:54 +02:00
Prarit Bhargava
370a132bb2 x86/microcode: Make sure boot_cpu_data.microcode is up-to-date
When preparing an MCE record for logging, boot_cpu_data.microcode is used
to read out the microcode revision on the box.

However, on systems where late microcode update has happened, the microcode
revision output in a MCE log record is wrong because
boot_cpu_data.microcode is not updated when the microcode gets updated.

But, the microcode revision saved in boot_cpu_data's microcode member
should be kept up-to-date, regardless, for consistency.

Make it so.

Fixes: fa94d0c6e0 ("x86/MCE: Save microcode revision in machine check records")
Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: sironi@amazon.de
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180731112739.32338-1-prarit@redhat.com
2018-09-02 14:10:54 +02:00
Zhenzhong Duan
0218c76626 x86/microcode/intel: Fix memleak in save_microcode_patch()
Free useless ucode_patch entry when it's replaced.

[ bp: Drop the memfree_patch() two-liner. ]

Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Srinivas REDDY Eeda <srinivas.eeda@oracle.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/888102f0-fd22-459d-b090-a1bd8a00cb2b@default
2018-06-22 14:42:59 +02:00
Borislav Petkov
84749d8375 x86/microcode/intel: Save microcode patch unconditionally
save_mc_for_early() was a no-op on !CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU but the
generic_load_microcode() path saves the microcode patches it has found into
the cache of patches which is used for late loading too. Regardless of
whether CPU hotplug is used or not.

Make the saving unconditional so that late loading can find the proper
patch.

Reported-by: Vitezslav Samel <vitezslav@samel.cz>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Vitezslav Samel <vitezslav@samel.cz>
Tested-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180418081140.GA2439@pc11.op.pod.cz
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180421081930.15741-1-bp@alien8.de
2018-04-24 09:48:22 +02:00
Borislav Petkov
2613f36ed9 x86/microcode: Attempt late loading only when new microcode is present
Return UCODE_NEW from the scanning functions to denote that new microcode
was found and only then attempt the expensive synchronization dance.

Reported-by: Emanuel Czirai <xftroxgpx@protonmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Emanuel Czirai <xftroxgpx@protonmail.com>
Tested-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Tested-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180314183615.17629-1-bp@alien8.de
2018-03-16 20:55:51 +01:00
Borislav Petkov
d8c3b52c00 x86/microcode/intel: Look into the patch cache first
The cache might contain a newer patch - look in there first.

A follow-on change will make sure newest patches are loaded into the
cache of microcode patches.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Tested-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Cc: Arjan Van De Ven <arjan.van.de.ven@intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180228102846.13447-6-bp@alien8.de
2018-03-08 10:19:26 +01:00
Ashok Raj
91df9fdf51 x86/microcode/intel: Writeback and invalidate caches before updating microcode
Updating microcode is less error prone when caches have been flushed and
depending on what exactly the microcode is updating. For example, some
of the issues around certain Broadwell parts can be addressed by doing a
full cache flush.

[ Borislav: Massage it and use native_wbinvd() in both cases. ]

Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Tested-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Cc: Arjan Van De Ven <arjan.van.de.ven@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1519352533-15992-3-git-send-email-ashok.raj@intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180228102846.13447-4-bp@alien8.de
2018-03-08 10:19:25 +01:00
Ashok Raj
c182d2b7d0 x86/microcode/intel: Check microcode revision before updating sibling threads
After updating microcode on one of the threads of a core, the other
thread sibling automatically gets the update since the microcode
resources on a hyperthreaded core are shared between the two threads.

Check the microcode revision on the CPU before performing a microcode
update and thus save us the WRMSR 0x79 because it is a particularly
expensive operation.

[ Borislav: Massage changelog and coding style. ]

Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Tested-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Cc: Arjan Van De Ven <arjan.van.de.ven@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1519352533-15992-2-git-send-email-ashok.raj@intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180228102846.13447-3-bp@alien8.de
2018-03-08 10:19:25 +01:00
Borislav Petkov
3f1f576a19 x86/microcode: Propagate return value from updating functions
... so that callers can know when microcode was updated and act
accordingly.

Tested-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180216112640.11554-2-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-02-17 08:43:55 +01:00
Gustavo A. R. Silva
24dbc6000f x86/cpu: Change type of x86_cache_size variable to unsigned int
Currently, x86_cache_size is of type int, which makes no sense as we
will never have a valid cache size equal or less than 0. So instead of
initializing this variable to -1, it can perfectly be initialized to 0
and use it as an unsigned variable instead.

Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <garsilva@embeddedor.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1464429
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180213192208.GA26414@embeddedor.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-02-15 01:15:53 +01:00
Jia Zhang
b399151cb4 x86/cpu: Rename cpu_data.x86_mask to cpu_data.x86_stepping
x86_mask is a confusing name which is hard to associate with the
processor's stepping.

Additionally, correct an indent issue in lib/cpu.c.

Signed-off-by: Jia Zhang <qianyue.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
[ Updated it to more recent kernels. ]
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: bp@alien8.de
Cc: tony.luck@intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1514771530-70829-1-git-send-email-qianyue.zj@alibaba-inc.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-02-15 01:15:52 +01:00
Jia Zhang
7e702d17ed x86/microcode/intel: Extend BDW late-loading further with LLC size check
Commit b94b737331 ("x86/microcode/intel: Extend BDW late-loading with a
revision check") reduced the impact of erratum BDF90 for Broadwell model
79.

The impact can be reduced further by checking the size of the last level
cache portion per core.

Tony: "The erratum says the problem only occurs on the large-cache SKUs.
So we only need to avoid the update if we are on a big cache SKU that is
also running old microcode."

For more details, see erratum BDF90 in document #334165 (Intel Xeon
Processor E7-8800/4800 v4 Product Family Specification Update) from
September 2017.

Fixes: b94b737331 ("x86/microcode/intel: Extend BDW late-loading with a revision check")
Signed-off-by: Jia Zhang <zhang.jia@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1516321542-31161-1-git-send-email-zhang.jia@linux.alibaba.com
2018-01-24 13:00:35 +01:00
Jia Zhang
b94b737331 x86/microcode/intel: Extend BDW late-loading with a revision check
Instead of blacklisting all model 79 CPUs when attempting a late
microcode loading, limit that only to CPUs with microcode revisions <
0x0b000021 because only on those late loading may cause a system hang.

For such processors either:

a) a BIOS update which might contain a newer microcode revision

or

b) the early microcode loading method

should be considered.

Processors with revisions 0x0b000021 or higher will not experience such
hangs.

For more details, see erratum BDF90 in document #334165 (Intel Xeon
Processor E7-8800/4800 v4 Product Family Specification Update) from
September 2017.

[ bp: Heavily massage commit message and pr_* statements. ]

Fixes: 723f2828a9 ("x86/microcode/intel: Disable late loading on model 79")
Signed-off-by: Jia Zhang <qianyue.zj@alibaba-inc.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.14
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1514772287-92959-1-git-send-email-qianyue.zj@alibaba-inc.com
2018-01-06 14:44:57 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
23cb7d46f3 x86/microcode: Dont abuse the TLB-flush interface
Commit:

  ec400ddeff ("x86/microcode_intel_early.c: Early update ucode on Intel's CPU")

... grubbed into tlbflush internals without coherent explanation.

Since it says its a precaution and the SDM doesn't mention anything like
this, take it out back.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Eduardo Valentin <eduval@amazon.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: aliguori@amazon.com
Cc: daniel.gruss@iaik.tugraz.at
Cc: fenghua.yu@intel.com
Cc: hughd@google.com
Cc: keescook@google.com
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-12-22 20:13:03 +01:00
Borislav Petkov
723f2828a9 x86/microcode/intel: Disable late loading on model 79
Blacklist Broadwell X model 79 for late loading due to an erratum.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171018111225.25635-1-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-10-18 15:20:20 +02:00
Borislav Petkov
aa78c1ccfa x86/microcode/intel: Improve microcode patches saving flow
Avoid potentially dereferencing a NULL pointer when saving a microcode
patch for early loading on the application processors.

While at it, drop the IS_ERR() checking in favor of simpler, NULL-ptr
checks which are sufficient and rename __alloc_microcode_buf() to
memdup_patch() to more precisely denote what it does.

No functionality change.

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170825100456.n236w3jebteokfd6@pd.tnic
2017-08-29 10:59:28 +02:00