4.11-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Dominik Brodowski <[email protected]>

commit 5b0bc9ac2ce4881ee318a21f31140584ce4dbdad upstream.

During early boot, load_ucode_intel_ap() uses __load_ucode_intel()
to obtain a pointer to the relevant microcode patch (embedded in the
initrd), and stores this value in 'intel_ucode_patch' to speed up the
microcode patch application for subsequent CPUs.

On resuming from suspend-to-RAM, however, load_ucode_ap() calls
load_ucode_intel_ap() for each non-boot-CPU. By then the initramfs is
long gone so the pointer stored in 'intel_ucode_patch' no longer points to
a valid microcode patch.

Clear that pointer so that we effectively fall back to the CPU hotplug
notifier callbacks to update the microcode.

Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <[email protected]>
[ Edit and massage commit message. ]
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c
@@ -619,6 +619,9 @@ int __init save_microcode_in_initrd_inte
 
        show_saved_mc();
 
+       /* initrd is going away, clear patch ptr. */
+       intel_ucode_patch = NULL;
+
        return 0;
 }
 


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