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x86/microcode/intel: Save pointer to ucode patch for early AP loading
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Normally, when the initrd is gone, we can't search it for microcode
blobs to apply anymore. For that we need to stash away the patch in our
own storage.

And save_microcode_in_initrd_intel() looks like the proper place to
do that from. So in order for early loading to work, invalidate the
intel_ucode_patch pointer to the patch *before* scanning the initrd one
last time.

If the scanning code finds a microcode patch, it will assign that
pointer again, this time with our own storage's address.

This way, early microcode application during resume-from-RAM works too,
even after the initrd is long gone.

Tested-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
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/20170614140626.4462-2-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Borislav Petkov authored and Ingo Molnar committed Jun 20, 2017
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25 changes: 21 additions & 4 deletions arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c
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Expand Up @@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ static struct ucode_patch *__alloc_microcode_buf(void *data, unsigned int size)
static void save_microcode_patch(void *data, unsigned int size)
{
struct microcode_header_intel *mc_hdr, *mc_saved_hdr;
struct ucode_patch *iter, *tmp, *p;
struct ucode_patch *iter, *tmp, *p = NULL;
bool prev_found = false;
unsigned int sig, pf;

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -202,6 +202,18 @@ static void save_microcode_patch(void *data, unsigned int size)
else
list_add_tail(&p->plist, &microcode_cache);
}

/*
* Save for early loading. On 32-bit, that needs to be a physical
* address as the APs are running from physical addresses, before
* paging has been enabled.
*/
if (p) {
if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_X86_32))
intel_ucode_patch = (struct microcode_intel *)__pa_nodebug(p->data);
else
intel_ucode_patch = p->data;
}
}

static int microcode_sanity_check(void *mc, int print_err)
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -607,6 +619,14 @@ int __init save_microcode_in_initrd_intel(void)
struct ucode_cpu_info uci;
struct cpio_data cp;

/*
* initrd is going away, clear patch ptr. We will scan the microcode one
* last time before jettisoning and save a patch, if found. Then we will
* update that pointer too, with a stable patch address to use when
* resuming the cores.
*/
intel_ucode_patch = NULL;

if (!load_builtin_intel_microcode(&cp))
cp = find_microcode_in_initrd(ucode_path, false);

Expand All @@ -619,9 +639,6 @@ int __init save_microcode_in_initrd_intel(void)

show_saved_mc();

/* initrd is going away, clear patch ptr. */
intel_ucode_patch = NULL;

return 0;
}

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