Commit c5bd1ad6 authored Feb 26, 2018 by Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman Mar 15, 2018

x86/spectre_v2: Don't check microcode versions when running under hypervisors



commit 36268223 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>

parent c192a793

arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c

+7 −0

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		@@ -144,6 +144,13 @@ static bool bad_spectre_microcode(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
		{
		int i;

		/*
		* We know that the hypervisor lie to us on the microcode version so
		* we may as well hope that it is running the correct version.
		*/
		if (cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_HYPERVISOR))
		return false;

		for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(spectre_bad_microcodes); i++) {
		if (c->x86_model == spectre_bad_microcodes[i].model &&
		c->x86_stepping == spectre_bad_microcodes[i].stepping)