4.15-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Borislav Petkov <b...@suse.de> commit 42ca8082e260dcfd8afa2afa6ec1940b9d41724c upstream. With some microcode upgrades, new CPUID features can become visible on the CPU. Check what the kernel has mirrored now and issue a warning hinting at possible things the user/admin can do to make use of the newly visible features. Originally-by: Ashok Raj <ashok....@intel.com> Tested-by: Ashok Raj <ashok....@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <b...@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Ashok Raj <ashok....@intel.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <l...@kernel.org> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <ar...@linux.intel.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <b...@alien8.de> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.willi...@intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.han...@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dw...@infradead.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoim...@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180216112640.11554-4...@alien8.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c @@ -1757,5 +1757,25 @@ core_initcall(init_cpu_syscore); */ void microcode_check(void) { + struct cpuinfo_x86 info; + perf_check_microcode(); + + /* Reload CPUID max function as it might've changed. */ + info.cpuid_level = cpuid_eax(0); + + /* + * Copy all capability leafs to pick up the synthetic ones so that + * memcmp() below doesn't fail on that. The ones coming from CPUID will + * get overwritten in get_cpu_cap(). + */ + memcpy(&info.x86_capability, &boot_cpu_data.x86_capability, sizeof(info.x86_capability)); + + get_cpu_cap(&info); + + if (!memcmp(&info.x86_capability, &boot_cpu_data.x86_capability, sizeof(info.x86_capability))) + return; + + pr_warn("x86/CPU: CPU features have changed after loading microcode, but might not take effect.\n"); + pr_warn("x86/CPU: Please consider either early loading through initrd/built-in or a potential BIOS update.\n"); }
