2018-03-13 19:37:43

by Alexander Sergeyev

Subject: [PATCH] x86/speculation: Remove Skylake C2 from Speculation Control microcode blacklist

In accordance with Intel's microcode revision guidance from March 6 MCU
rev 0xc2 is cleared on both Skylake H/S and Skylake Xeon E3 processors
that share CPUID 506E3.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Sergeyev <[email protected]>
---
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c
index b862067bb33c..3f8d7a3b6447 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ static void probe_xeon_phi_r3mwait(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
/*
* Early microcode releases for the Spectre v2 mitigation were broken.
* Information taken from;
- * - https://newsroom.intel.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2018/01/microcode-update-guidance.pdf
+ * - https://newsroom.intel.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2018/03/microcode-update-guidance.pdf
* - https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/52345
* - Microcode revisions observed in the wild
* - Release note from 20180108 microcode release
@@ -123,7 +123,6 @@ static const struct sku_microcode spectre_bad_microcodes[] = {
{ INTEL_FAM6_KABYLAKE_MOBILE, 0x09, 0x80 },
{ INTEL_FAM6_SKYLAKE_X, 0x03, 0x0100013e },
{ INTEL_FAM6_SKYLAKE_X, 0x04, 0x0200003c },
- { INTEL_FAM6_SKYLAKE_DESKTOP, 0x03, 0xc2 },
{ INTEL_FAM6_BROADWELL_CORE, 0x04, 0x28 },
{ INTEL_FAM6_BROADWELL_GT3E, 0x01, 0x1b },
{ INTEL_FAM6_BROADWELL_XEON_D, 0x02, 0x14 },
--
2.16.1

2018-03-16 11:56:40

by tip-bot for Vasyl Gomonovych

Subject: [tip:x86/pti] x86/speculation: Remove Skylake C2 from Speculation Control microcode blacklist

Commit-ID: e3b3121fa8da94cb20f9e0c64ab7981ae47fd085
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/e3b3121fa8da94cb20f9e0c64ab7981ae47fd085
Author: Alexander Sergeyev <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 22:38:56 +0300
Committer: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
CommitDate: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 12:33:11 +0100

x86/speculation: Remove Skylake C2 from Speculation Control microcode blacklist

In accordance with Intel's microcode revision guidance from March 6 MCU
rev 0xc2 is cleared on both Skylake H/S and Skylake Xeon E3 processors
that share CPUID 506E3.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Sergeyev <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Jia Zhang <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Cc: Kyle Huey <[email protected]>
Cc: David Woodhouse <[email protected]>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
---
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c
index 4aa9fd379390..c3af167d0a70 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ static void probe_xeon_phi_r3mwait(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
/*
* Early microcode releases for the Spectre v2 mitigation were broken.
* Information taken from;
- * - https://newsroom.intel.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2018/01/microcode-update-guidance.pdf
+ * - https://newsroom.intel.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2018/03/microcode-update-guidance.pdf
* - https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/52345
* - Microcode revisions observed in the wild
* - Release note from 20180108 microcode release
@@ -123,7 +123,6 @@ static const struct sku_microcode spectre_bad_microcodes[] = {
{ INTEL_FAM6_KABYLAKE_MOBILE, 0x09, 0x80 },
{ INTEL_FAM6_SKYLAKE_X, 0x03, 0x0100013e },
{ INTEL_FAM6_SKYLAKE_X, 0x04, 0x0200003c },
- { INTEL_FAM6_SKYLAKE_DESKTOP, 0x03, 0xc2 },
{ INTEL_FAM6_BROADWELL_CORE, 0x04, 0x28 },
{ INTEL_FAM6_BROADWELL_GT3E, 0x01, 0x1b },
{ INTEL_FAM6_BROADWELL_XEON_D, 0x02, 0x14 },