From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 08:25:08 +0000 (+0200) Subject: x86/microcode: Check whether the microcode is correct X-Git-Tag: archive/raspbian/4.8.0-1+rpi1~1^2~6247 X-Git-Url: https://dgit.raspbian.org/%22http:/www.example.com/cgi/%22https://%22%22/%22http:/www.example.com/cgi/%22https:/%22%22?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4deea8515b1caba8803816399068f2a75d65f8ad;p=xen.git x86/microcode: Check whether the microcode is correct We do the microcode code update in two steps - the presmp: 'microcode_presmp_init' and when CPUs are brought up: 'microcode_init'. The earlier performs the microcode update on the BSP - but unfortunately it does not check whether the update failed. Which means that we might try later to update a incorrect payload on the rest of CPUs. This patch handles this odd situation. Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper Acked-by: Keir Fraser --- diff --git a/xen/arch/x86/microcode.c b/xen/arch/x86/microcode.c index e6344cf182..091d5d1819 100644 --- a/xen/arch/x86/microcode.c +++ b/xen/arch/x86/microcode.c @@ -418,6 +418,7 @@ static int __init microcode_presmp_init(void) { void *data; size_t len; + int rc = 0; if ( ucode_blob.size ) { @@ -430,10 +431,24 @@ static int __init microcode_presmp_init(void) data = ucode_mod_map(&ucode_mod); } if ( data ) - microcode_update_cpu(data, len); + rc = microcode_update_cpu(data, len); + else + rc = -ENOMEM; if ( !ucode_blob.size ) ucode_mod_map(NULL); + + if ( rc ) + { + if ( ucode_blob.size ) + { + xfree(ucode_blob.data); + ucode_blob.size = 0; + ucode_blob.data = NULL; + } + else + ucode_mod.mod_end = 0; + } } register_cpu_notifier(µcode_percpu_nfb);