From: Borislav Petkov <b...@suse.de> The commit in Fixes: added the new define UCODE_NEW to denote that an update should happen only when newer microcode (than installed on the system) has been found.
But it missed adjusting that for the old /dev/cpu/microcode loading interface. Fix it. Fixes: 2613f36ed965 ("x86/microcode: Attempt late loading only when new microcode is present") Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <b...@suse.de> Cc: Jann Horn <ja...@google.com> --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c index 5260185cbf7b..8a4a7823451a 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c @@ -418,8 +418,9 @@ static int do_microcode_update(const void __user *buf, size_t size) if (ustate == UCODE_ERROR) { error = -1; break; - } else if (ustate == UCODE_OK) + } else if (ustate == UCODE_NEW) { apply_microcode_on_target(cpu); + } } return error; -- 2.21.0