x86, microcode: Sanitize per-cpu microcode reloading interface
authorBorislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Thu, 21 Jun 2012 12:07:16 +0000 (14:07 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 15 Aug 2012 19:04:29 +0000 (12:04 -0700)
commitbb014c405d5e6d92fd9617bdfc29b29ad2bf6588
tree1ddb37b5bc228912b83bc585fda202e658aea3be
parentd426c78930e6e01373e3007df81161855f5b6ec1
x86, microcode: Sanitize per-cpu microcode reloading interface

commit c9fc3f778a6a215ace14ee556067c73982b6d40f upstream.

Microcode reloading in a per-core manner is a very bad idea for both
major x86 vendors. And the thing is, we have such interface with which
we can end up with different microcode versions applied on different
cores of an otherwise homogeneous wrt (family,model,stepping) system.

So turn off the possibility of doing that per core and allow it only
system-wide.

This is a minimal fix which we'd like to see in stable too thus the
more-or-less arbitrary decision to allow system-wide reloading only on
the BSP:

$ echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/microcode/reload
...

and disable the interface on the other cores:

$ echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu23/microcode/reload
-bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument

Also, allowing the reload only from one CPU (the BSP in
that case) doesn't allow the reload procedure to degenerate
into an O(n^2) deal when triggering reloads from all
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/microcode/reload sysfs nodes
simultaneously.

A more generic fix will follow.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340280437-7718-2-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c