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x86/speculation: Correct Speculation Control microcode blacklist again
authorDavid Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Mon, 12 Feb 2018 15:27:34 +0000 (15:27 +0000)
committerSeth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
Fri, 23 Feb 2018 14:26:50 +0000 (08:26 -0600)
commit3e442a86b70eea274d01569244584d91e2f287e7
tree30623d70ffb34863af42af1a08539f3adb7e1061
parent27ab492d80a0a2d674156fd403d1245cd8546766
x86/speculation: Correct Speculation Control microcode blacklist again

BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1751131
commit d37fc6d360a404b208547ba112e7dabb6533c7fc upstream.

Arjan points out that the Intel document only clears the 0xc2 microcode
on *some* parts with CPUID 506E3 (INTEL_FAM6_SKYLAKE_DESKTOP stepping 3).
For the Skylake H/S platform it's OK but for Skylake E3 which has the
same CPUID it isn't (yet) cleared.

So removing it from the blacklist was premature. Put it back for now.

Also, Arjan assures me that the 0x84 microcode for Kaby Lake which was
featured in one of the early revisions of the Intel document was never
released to the public, and won't be until/unless it is also validated
as safe. So those can change to 0x80 which is what all *other* versions
of the doc have identified.

Once the retrospective testing of existing public microcodes is done, we
should be back into a mode where new microcodes are only released in
batches and we shouldn't even need to update the blacklist for those
anyway, so this tweaking of the list isn't expected to be a thing which
keeps happening.

Requested-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan.van.de.ven@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: arjan.van.de.ven@intel.com
Cc: dave.hansen@intel.com
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: pbonzini@redhat.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1518449255-2182-1-git-send-email-dwmw@amazon.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c