Re: Can't boot as Xen dom0 due to commit fe055896

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Fri Dec 16 2016 - 10:17:43 EST


On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 09:40:59AM -0500, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> It works

Thanks. Added your Tested-by.

> but I think both of the bugs we talked about yesterday still
> need to be fixed, they are not related to Xen.

For the one issue with the eq_id, I have the below cleanup for all the
args passing lined up for testing. For native_cpuid() you could send me
a patch. Unless you don't have time, then I can do it myself.

---
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/amd.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/amd.c
index 6f353bdb3a25..122ed2249367 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/amd.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/amd.c
@@ -116,10 +116,11 @@ static inline u16 find_equiv_id(struct equiv_cpu_entry *equiv_cpu_table,

/*
* This scans the ucode blob for the proper container as we can have multiple
- * containers glued together.
+ * containers glued together. Returns the equivalence ID from the equivalence
+ * table.
*/
-static struct container
-find_proper_container(u8 *ucode, size_t size, u16 *ret_id)
+static u16
+find_proper_container(u8 *ucode, size_t size, struct container *ret_cont)
{
struct container ret = { NULL, 0 };
u32 eax, ebx, ecx, edx;
@@ -138,7 +139,7 @@ find_proper_container(u8 *ucode, size_t size, u16 *ret_id)
if (header[0] != UCODE_MAGIC ||
header[1] != UCODE_EQUIV_CPU_TABLE_TYPE || /* type */
header[2] == 0) /* size */
- return ret;
+ return eq_id;

eax = 0x00000001;
ecx = 0;
@@ -163,8 +164,9 @@ find_proper_container(u8 *ucode, size_t size, u16 *ret_id)
* ucode update loop below
*/
left = ret.size - offset;
- *ret_id = eq_id;
- return ret;
+
+ *ret_cont = ret;
+ return eq_id;
}

/*
@@ -189,7 +191,7 @@ find_proper_container(u8 *ucode, size_t size, u16 *ret_id)
ucode = data;
}

- return ret;
+ return eq_id;
}

static int __apply_microcode_amd(struct microcode_amd *mc_amd)
@@ -214,17 +216,18 @@ static int __apply_microcode_amd(struct microcode_amd *mc_amd)
* and on 32-bit during save_microcode_in_initrd_amd() -- we can call
* load_microcode_amd() to save equivalent cpu table and microcode patches in
* kernel heap memory.
+ *
+ * Returns true if container found (sets @ret_cont), false otherwise.
*/
-static struct container
-apply_microcode_early_amd(void *ucode, size_t size, bool save_patch)
+static bool apply_microcode_early_amd(void *ucode, size_t size, bool save_patch,
+ struct container *ret_cont)
{
- struct container ret = { NULL, 0 };
u8 (*patch)[PATCH_MAX_SIZE];
+ u32 rev, *header, *new_rev;
+ struct container ret;
int offset, left;
- u32 rev, *header;
- u8 *data;
u16 eq_id = 0;
- u32 *new_rev;
+ u8 *data;

#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
new_rev = (u32 *)__pa_nodebug(&ucode_new_rev);
@@ -235,11 +238,11 @@ apply_microcode_early_amd(void *ucode, size_t size, bool save_patch)
#endif

if (check_current_patch_level(&rev, true))
- return (struct container){ NULL, 0 };
+ return false;

- ret = find_proper_container(ucode, size, &eq_id);
+ eq_id = find_proper_container(ucode, size, &ret);
if (!eq_id)
- return (struct container){ NULL, 0 };
+ return false;

this_equiv_id = eq_id;
header = (u32 *)ret.data;
@@ -273,7 +276,11 @@ apply_microcode_early_amd(void *ucode, size_t size, bool save_patch)
data += offset;
left -= offset;
}
- return ret;
+
+ if (ret_cont)
+ *ret_cont = ret;
+
+ return true;
}

static bool get_builtin_microcode(struct cpio_data *cp, unsigned int family)
@@ -317,7 +324,7 @@ void __init load_ucode_amd_bsp(unsigned int family)
/* Get BSP's CPUID.EAX(1), needed in load_microcode_amd() */
uci->cpu_sig.sig = cpuid_eax(1);

- apply_microcode_early_amd(cp.data, cp.size, true);
+ apply_microcode_early_amd(cp.data, cp.size, true, NULL);
}

#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
@@ -349,7 +356,7 @@ void load_ucode_amd_ap(unsigned int family)
* This would set amd_ucode_patch above so that the following APs can
* use it directly instead of going down this path again.
*/
- apply_microcode_early_amd(cp.data, cp.size, true);
+ apply_microcode_early_amd(cp.data, cp.size, true, NULL);
}
#else
void load_ucode_amd_ap(unsigned int family)
@@ -387,8 +394,7 @@ void load_ucode_amd_ap(unsigned int family)
}
}

- cont = apply_microcode_early_amd(cp.data, cp.size, false);
- if (!(cont.data && cont.size)) {
+ if (apply_microcode_early_amd(cp.data, cp.size, false, &cont)) {
cont.size = -1;
return;
}
@@ -443,7 +449,7 @@ int __init save_microcode_in_initrd_amd(unsigned int fam)
return -EINVAL;
}

- cont = find_proper_container(cp.data, cp.size, &eq_id);
+ eq_id = find_proper_container(cp.data, cp.size, &cont);
if (!eq_id) {
cont.size = -1;
return -EINVAL;

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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