Commit-ID: 36268223c1e9981d6cfc33aff8520b3bde4b8114
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/36268223c1e9981d6cfc33aff8520b3bde4b8114
Author: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 09:35:01 -0500
Committer: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
CommitDate: Thu, 8 Mar 2018 10:13:02 +0100
x86/spectre_v2: Don't check microcode versions when running under hypervisors
As:
1) It's known that hypervisors lie about the environment anyhow (host
mismatch)
2) Even if the hypervisor (Xen, KVM, VMWare, etc) provided a valid
"correct" value, it all gets to be very murky when migration happens
(do you provide the "new" microcode of the machine?).
And in reality the cloud vendors are the ones that should make sure that
the microcode that is running is correct and we should just sing lalalala
and trust them.
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <[email protected]>
Cc: kvm <[email protected]>
Cc: Krčmář <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
CC: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
CC: [email protected]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
---
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c
index d19e903214b4..4aa9fd379390 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c
@@ -144,6 +144,13 @@ static bool bad_spectre_microcode(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
{
int i;
+ /*
+ * We know that the hypervisor lie to us on the microcode version so
+ * we may as well hope that it is running the correct version.
+ */
+ if (cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_HYPERVISOR))
+ return false;
+
for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(spectre_bad_microcodes); i++) {
if (c->x86_model == spectre_bad_microcodes[i].model &&
c->x86_stepping == spectre_bad_microcodes[i].stepping)
