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<title>linux.git/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode, branch v4.11</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/microcode, to resolve conflicts</title>
<updated>2017-01-31T07:38:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-01-31T07:38:17+00:00</published>
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 Conflicts:
  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/amd.c
  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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 Conflicts:
  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/amd.c
  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/microcode: Do not access the initrd after it has been freed</title>
<updated>2017-01-30T08:32:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>bp@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-01-25T20:00:48+00:00</published>
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When we look for microcode blobs, we first try builtin and if that
doesn't succeed, we fallback to the initrd supplied to the kernel.

However, at some point doing boot, that initrd gets jettisoned and we
shouldn't access it anymore. But we do, as the below KASAN report shows.
That's because find_microcode_in_initrd() doesn't check whether the
initrd is still valid or not.

So do that.

  ==================================================================
  BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in find_cpio_data
  Read of size 1 by task swapper/1/0
  page:ffffea0000db9d40 count:0 mapcount:0 mapping:          (null) index:0x1
  flags: 0x100000000000000()
  raw: 0100000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 00000000ffffffff
  raw: dead000000000100 dead000000000200 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
  page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
  CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Tainted: G        W       4.10.0-rc5-debug-00075-g2dbde22 #3
  Hardware name: Dell Inc. XPS 13 9360/0839Y6, BIOS 1.2.3 12/01/2016
  Call Trace:
   dump_stack
   ? _atomic_dec_and_lock
   ? __dump_page
   kasan_report_error
   ? pointer
   ? find_cpio_data
   __asan_report_load1_noabort
   ? find_cpio_data
   find_cpio_data
   ? vsprintf
   ? dump_stack
   ? get_ucode_user
   ? print_usage_bug
   find_microcode_in_initrd
   __load_ucode_intel
   ? collect_cpu_info_early
   ? debug_check_no_locks_freed
   load_ucode_intel_ap
   ? collect_cpu_info
   ? trace_hardirqs_on
   ? flat_send_IPI_mask_allbutself
   load_ucode_ap
   ? get_builtin_firmware
   ? flush_tlb_func
   ? do_raw_spin_trylock
   ? cpumask_weight
   cpu_init
   ? trace_hardirqs_off
   ? play_dead_common
   ? native_play_dead
   ? hlt_play_dead
   ? syscall_init
   ? arch_cpu_idle_dead
   ? do_idle
   start_secondary
   start_cpu
  Memory state around the buggy address:
   ffff880036e74f00: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
   ffff880036e74f80: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
  &gt;ffff880036e75000: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
                     ^
   ffff880036e75080: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
   ffff880036e75100: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
  ==================================================================

Reported-by: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Tested-by: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170126165833.evjemhbqzaepirxo@pd.tnic
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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When we look for microcode blobs, we first try builtin and if that
doesn't succeed, we fallback to the initrd supplied to the kernel.

However, at some point doing boot, that initrd gets jettisoned and we
shouldn't access it anymore. But we do, as the below KASAN report shows.
That's because find_microcode_in_initrd() doesn't check whether the
initrd is still valid or not.

So do that.

  ==================================================================
  BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in find_cpio_data
  Read of size 1 by task swapper/1/0
  page:ffffea0000db9d40 count:0 mapcount:0 mapping:          (null) index:0x1
  flags: 0x100000000000000()
  raw: 0100000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 00000000ffffffff
  raw: dead000000000100 dead000000000200 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
  page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
  CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Tainted: G        W       4.10.0-rc5-debug-00075-g2dbde22 #3
  Hardware name: Dell Inc. XPS 13 9360/0839Y6, BIOS 1.2.3 12/01/2016
  Call Trace:
   dump_stack
   ? _atomic_dec_and_lock
   ? __dump_page
   kasan_report_error
   ? pointer
   ? find_cpio_data
   __asan_report_load1_noabort
   ? find_cpio_data
   find_cpio_data
   ? vsprintf
   ? dump_stack
   ? get_ucode_user
   ? print_usage_bug
   find_microcode_in_initrd
   __load_ucode_intel
   ? collect_cpu_info_early
   ? debug_check_no_locks_freed
   load_ucode_intel_ap
   ? collect_cpu_info
   ? trace_hardirqs_on
   ? flat_send_IPI_mask_allbutself
   load_ucode_ap
   ? get_builtin_firmware
   ? flush_tlb_func
   ? do_raw_spin_trylock
   ? cpumask_weight
   cpu_init
   ? trace_hardirqs_off
   ? play_dead_common
   ? native_play_dead
   ? hlt_play_dead
   ? syscall_init
   ? arch_cpu_idle_dead
   ? do_idle
   start_secondary
   start_cpu
  Memory state around the buggy address:
   ffff880036e74f00: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
   ffff880036e74f80: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
  &gt;ffff880036e75000: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
                     ^
   ffff880036e75080: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
   ffff880036e75100: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
  ==================================================================

Reported-by: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Tested-by: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;aryabinin@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170126165833.evjemhbqzaepirxo@pd.tnic
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/microcode/AMD: Remove struct cont_desc.eq_id</title>
<updated>2017-01-23T09:02:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>bp@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-01-20T20:29:55+00:00</published>
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The equivalence ID was needed outside of the container scanning logic
but now, after this has been cleaned up, not anymore. Now, cont_desc.mc
is used to denote whether the container we're looking at has the proper
microcode patch for this CPU or not.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170120202955.4091-17-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;

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<pre>
The equivalence ID was needed outside of the container scanning logic
but now, after this has been cleaned up, not anymore. Now, cont_desc.mc
is used to denote whether the container we're looking at has the proper
microcode patch for this CPU or not.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170120202955.4091-17-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/microcode/AMD: Remove AP scanning optimization</title>
<updated>2017-01-23T09:02:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>bp@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-01-20T20:29:54+00:00</published>
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The idea was to not scan the microcode blob on each AP (Application
Processor) during boot and thus save us some milliseconds. However, on
architectures where the microcode engine is shared between threads, this
doesn't work. Here's why:

The microcode on CPU0, i.e., the first thread, gets updated. The second
thread, i.e., CPU1, i.e., the first AP walks into load_ucode_amd_ap(),
sees that there's no container cached and goes and scans for the proper
blob.

It finds it and as a last step of apply_microcode_early_amd(), it tries
to apply the patch but that core has already the updated microcode
revision which it has received through CPU0's update. So it returns
false and we do desc-&gt;size = -1 to prevent other APs from scanning.

However, the next AP, CPU2, has a different microcode engine which
hasn't been updated yet. The desc-&gt;size == -1 test prevents it from
scanning the blob anew and we fail to update it.

The fix is much more straight-forward than it looks: the BSP
(BootStrapping Processor), i.e., CPU0, caches the microcode patch
in amd_ucode_patch. We use that on the AP and try to apply it.
In the 99.9999% of cases where we have homogeneous cores - *not*
mixed-steppings - the application will be successful and we're good to
go.

In the remaining small set of systems, we will simply rescan the blob
and find (or not, if none present) the proper patch and apply it then.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170120202955.4091-16-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;

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<pre>
The idea was to not scan the microcode blob on each AP (Application
Processor) during boot and thus save us some milliseconds. However, on
architectures where the microcode engine is shared between threads, this
doesn't work. Here's why:

The microcode on CPU0, i.e., the first thread, gets updated. The second
thread, i.e., CPU1, i.e., the first AP walks into load_ucode_amd_ap(),
sees that there's no container cached and goes and scans for the proper
blob.

It finds it and as a last step of apply_microcode_early_amd(), it tries
to apply the patch but that core has already the updated microcode
revision which it has received through CPU0's update. So it returns
false and we do desc-&gt;size = -1 to prevent other APs from scanning.

However, the next AP, CPU2, has a different microcode engine which
hasn't been updated yet. The desc-&gt;size == -1 test prevents it from
scanning the blob anew and we fail to update it.

The fix is much more straight-forward than it looks: the BSP
(BootStrapping Processor), i.e., CPU0, caches the microcode patch
in amd_ucode_patch. We use that on the AP and try to apply it.
In the 99.9999% of cases where we have homogeneous cores - *not*
mixed-steppings - the application will be successful and we're good to
go.

In the remaining small set of systems, we will simply rescan the blob
and find (or not, if none present) the proper patch and apply it then.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170120202955.4091-16-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;

</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/microcode/AMD: Simplify saving from initrd</title>
<updated>2017-01-23T09:02:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>bp@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-01-20T20:29:53+00:00</published>
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<id>72edfe950b36308353e27cdc02f334431239938a</id>
<content type='text'>
No need to use the previously stashed info in the container - simply go
ahead and parse the initrd once more. It simplifies and streamlines the
code a whole lot.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170120202955.4091-15-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;

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<pre>
No need to use the previously stashed info in the container - simply go
ahead and parse the initrd once more. It simplifies and streamlines the
code a whole lot.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170120202955.4091-15-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;

</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/microcode/AMD: Unify load_ucode_amd_ap()</title>
<updated>2017-01-23T09:02:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>bp@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-01-20T20:29:52+00:00</published>
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<id>e71bb4ec073901ad50bfa86fed74fce7ac3210fe</id>
<content type='text'>
Use a version for both bitness by adding a helper which does the actual
container finding and parsing which can be used on any CPU - BSP or AP.
Streamlines the paths more.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170120202955.4091-14-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;

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<pre>
Use a version for both bitness by adding a helper which does the actual
container finding and parsing which can be used on any CPU - BSP or AP.
Streamlines the paths more.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170120202955.4091-14-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;

</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/microcode/AMD: Check patch level only on the BSP</title>
<updated>2017-01-23T09:02:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>bp@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-01-20T20:29:51+00:00</published>
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<id>f3ad136d6ef966c8ba9090770c2bfe7e85f18471</id>
<content type='text'>
Check final patch levels for AMD only on the BSP. This way, we decide
early and only once whether to continue loading or to leave the loader
disabled on such systems.

Simplify a lot.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170120202955.4091-13-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;

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Check final patch levels for AMD only on the BSP. This way, we decide
early and only once whether to continue loading or to leave the loader
disabled on such systems.

Simplify a lot.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170120202955.4091-13-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;

</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/microcode: Remove local vendor variable</title>
<updated>2017-01-23T09:02:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>bp@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-01-20T20:29:50+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Use x86_cpuid_vendor() directly.

No functionality change.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170120202955.4091-12-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;

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Use x86_cpuid_vendor() directly.

No functionality change.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170120202955.4091-12-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;

</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/microcode/AMD: Use find_microcode_in_initrd()</title>
<updated>2017-01-23T09:02:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>bp@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-01-20T20:29:49+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=8cc26e0b4c49246564f773edbbefa3d5dc91d56e'/>
<id>8cc26e0b4c49246564f773edbbefa3d5dc91d56e</id>
<content type='text'>
Use the generic helper instead of semi-open-coding the procedure.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170120202955.4091-11-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;

</content>
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<pre>
Use the generic helper instead of semi-open-coding the procedure.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170120202955.4091-11-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/microcode/AMD: Get rid of global this_equiv_id</title>
<updated>2017-01-23T09:02:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>bp@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-01-20T20:29:48+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=3da9b41794590022d09caa345aaa7c812ac22971'/>
<id>3da9b41794590022d09caa345aaa7c812ac22971</id>
<content type='text'>
We have a container which we update/prepare each time before applying a
microcode patch instead of using a global.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170120202955.4091-10-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;

</content>
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We have a container which we update/prepare each time before applying a
microcode patch instead of using a global.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170120202955.4091-10-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;

</pre>
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