From 42ca8082e260dcfd8afa2afa6ec1940b9d41724c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 12:26:40 +0100
Subject: x86/CPU: Check CPU feature bits after microcode upgrade
With some microcode upgrades, new CPUID features can become visible on
the CPU. Check what the kernel has mirrored now and issue a warning
hinting at possible things the user/admin can do to make use of the
newly visible features.
Originally-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
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/20180216112640.11554-4-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
---
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
index 84f1cd8..348cf48 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
@@ -1757,5 +1757,25 @@ core_initcall(init_cpu_syscore);
*/
void microcode_check(void)
{
+ struct cpuinfo_x86 info;
+
perf_check_microcode();
+
+ /* Reload CPUID max function as it might've changed. */
+ info.cpuid_level = cpuid_eax(0);
+
+ /*
+ * Copy all capability leafs to pick up the synthetic ones so that
+ * memcmp() below doesn't fail on that. The ones coming from CPUID will
+ * get overwritten in get_cpu_cap().
+ */
+ memcpy(&info.x86_capability, &boot_cpu_data.x86_capability, sizeof(info.x86_capability));
+
+ get_cpu_cap(&info);
+
+ if (!memcmp(&info.x86_capability, &boot_cpu_data.x86_capability, sizeof(info.x86_capability)))
+ return;
+
+ pr_warn("x86/CPU: CPU features have changed after loading microcode, but might not take effect.\n");
+ pr_warn("x86/CPU: Please consider either early loading through initrd/built-in or a potential BIOS update.\n");
}
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