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x86/spectre_v2: Don't check microcode versions when running under hypervisors
authorKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Mon, 26 Feb 2018 14:35:01 +0000 (09:35 -0500)
committerThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@canonical.com>
Thu, 15 Mar 2018 21:29:02 +0000 (18:29 -0300)
commita8c48eadb6c34701f361c26e7fcb334ab7c55e57
tree7dd482c49f4f3a54a9b874bcdbe3f1cca3f7a672
parentae3e9ec6c0359522863861f98e02b9893c5b828b
x86/spectre_v2: Don't check microcode versions when running under hypervisors

BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1756100
commit 36268223c1e9981d6cfc33aff8520b3bde4b8114 upstream.

As:

 1) It's known that hypervisors lie about the environment anyhow (host
    mismatch)

 2) Even if the hypervisor (Xen, KVM, VMWare, etc) provided a valid
    "correct" value, it all gets to be very murky when migration happens
    (do you provide the "new" microcode of the machine?).

And in reality the cloud vendors are the ones that should make sure that
the microcode that is running is correct and we should just sing lalalala
and trust them.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com>
Cc: kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
CC: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180226213019.GE9497@char.us.oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@canonical.com>
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c