Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751407AbaKYWSJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Nov 2014 17:18:09 -0500 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:55206 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750951AbaKYWSG (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Nov 2014 17:18:06 -0500 Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 23:18:00 +0100 From: Borislav Petkov To: Boris Ostrovsky Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, Richard Hendershot , David Vrabel , x86-ml Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.17 100/141] x86, microcode: Fix accessing dis_ucode_ldr on 32-bit Message-ID: <20141125221800.GI4128@pd.tnic> References: <20141125182410.GB4128@pd.tnic> <5474CDCE.6040000@oracle.com> <20141125184351.GC4128@pd.tnic> <5474D0A1.2020600@oracle.com> <20141125190849.GF4128@pd.tnic> <5474D86E.6020608@oracle.com> <20141125202628.GG4128@pd.tnic> <20141125203634.GA6433@laptop.dumpdata.com> <20141125211708.GH4128@pd.tnic> <5474FBC6.7090603@oracle.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5474FBC6.7090603@oracle.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Adding x86 people. On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 04:59:34PM -0500, Boris Ostrovsky wrote: > This should be cpuid(0x1, &eax, &ebx, &ecx, &edx). Otherwise we are not > getting bits that the hypervisor wants the guest to see (on Xen cpuid() > turns into hypercall, on baremetal it's native). > > With that change it works and > > Tested-by: Boris Ostrovsky Thanks for testing. > (May be worth adding a comment as to what is_guest() is checking for since > 31 is a magic number). See below. > BTW, the crash had nothing to do with accessing dis_ucode_ldr, we are > crashing much later, in load_ucode_intel_ap(), trying to access > *initrd_start_p. And the reason we didn't crash before was because compiler > optimized out whole load_ucode_ap() since check_loader_disabled_ap() was > always true. Right, and my fix actually uncovered the original issue :-\ Ok, here's a v2 which adds the check to the late loader too, for completeness. I'll write a proper commit message tomorrow. --- diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/microcode.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/microcode.h index 64dc362506b7..654907db5f09 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/microcode.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/microcode.h @@ -87,4 +87,9 @@ static inline int __init save_microcode_in_initrd(void) } #endif +/* Check whether we're running as a guest on a hypervisor. */ +static inline bool x86_guest(void) +{ + return !!(cpuid_ecx(1) & BIT(31)); +} #endif /* _ASM_X86_MICROCODE_H */ diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c index 2ce9051174e6..0b6db2a97f61 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c @@ -557,6 +557,9 @@ static int __init microcode_init(void) struct cpuinfo_x86 *c = &cpu_data(0); int error; + if (x86_guest()) + return 0; + if (dis_ucode_ldr) return 0; diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core_early.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core_early.c index 2c017f242a78..dfa93e74c370 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core_early.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core_early.c @@ -98,6 +98,9 @@ void __init load_ucode_bsp(void) { int vendor, x86; + if (x86_guest()) + return; + if (check_loader_disabled_bsp()) return; @@ -134,6 +137,9 @@ void load_ucode_ap(void) { int vendor, x86; + if (x86_guest()) + return; + if (check_loader_disabled_ap()) return; -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine. -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/