x86/microcode: Request microcode on the BSP
authorBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Wed, 28 Feb 2018 10:28:45 +0000 (11:28 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 12 Apr 2018 10:32:22 +0000 (12:32 +0200)
commit cfb52a5a09c8ae3a1dafb44ce549fde5b69e8117 upstream.

... so that any newer version can land in the cache and can later be
fished out by the application functions. Do that before grabbing the
hotplug lock.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Tested-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Cc: Arjan Van De Ven <arjan.van.de.ven@intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180228102846.13447-7-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c

index f25c395141d0131e2e9cdd696f0a9e7b5864cc18..8adbf439cbfb32b4220db6d3bd51ed6ac5badb5b 100644 (file)
@@ -499,15 +499,10 @@ static int check_online_cpus(void)
 static enum ucode_state reload_for_cpu(int cpu)
 {
        struct ucode_cpu_info *uci = ucode_cpu_info + cpu;
-       enum ucode_state ustate;
 
        if (!uci->valid)
                return UCODE_OK;
 
-       ustate = microcode_ops->request_microcode_fw(cpu, &microcode_pdev->dev, true);
-       if (ustate != UCODE_OK)
-               return ustate;
-
        return apply_microcode_on_target(cpu);
 }
 
@@ -515,11 +510,11 @@ static ssize_t reload_store(struct device *dev,
                            struct device_attribute *attr,
                            const char *buf, size_t size)
 {
+       int cpu, bsp = boot_cpu_data.cpu_index;
        enum ucode_state tmp_ret = UCODE_OK;
        bool do_callback = false;
        unsigned long val;
        ssize_t ret = 0;
-       int cpu;
 
        ret = kstrtoul(buf, 0, &val);
        if (ret)
@@ -528,6 +523,10 @@ static ssize_t reload_store(struct device *dev,
        if (val != 1)
                return size;
 
+       tmp_ret = microcode_ops->request_microcode_fw(bsp, &microcode_pdev->dev, true);
+       if (tmp_ret != UCODE_OK)
+               return size;
+
        get_online_cpus();
 
        ret = check_online_cpus();