[PATCH AUTOSEL 5.4 080/107] Fix built-in early-load Intel microcode alignment

From: Sasha Levin
Date: Fri Jan 24 2020 - 09:34:05 EST


From: Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@xxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit f5ae2ea6347a308cfe91f53b53682ce635497d0d ]

Intel Software Developer's Manual, volume 3, chapter 9.11.6 says:

"Note that the microcode update must be aligned on a 16-byte boundary
and the size of the microcode update must be 1-KByte granular"

When early-load Intel microcode is loaded from initramfs, userspace tool
'iucode_tool' has already 16-byte aligned those microcode bits in that
initramfs image. Image that was created something like this:

iucode_tool --write-earlyfw=FOO.cpio microcode-files...

However, when early-load Intel microcode is loaded from built-in
firmware BLOB using CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE= kernel config option, that
16-byte alignment is not guaranteed.

Fix this by forcing all built-in firmware BLOBs to 16-byte alignment.

[ If we end up having other firmware with much bigger alignment
requirements, we might need to introduce some method for the firmware
to specify it, this is the minimal "just increase the alignment a bit
to account for this one special case" patch - Linus ]

Signed-off-by: Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/base/firmware_loader/builtin/Makefile | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/base/firmware_loader/builtin/Makefile b/drivers/base/firmware_loader/builtin/Makefile
index 4a66888e7253d..5fa7ce3745a0d 100644
--- a/drivers/base/firmware_loader/builtin/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/base/firmware_loader/builtin/Makefile
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ PROGBITS = $(if $(CONFIG_ARM),%,@)progbits
filechk_fwbin = \
echo "/* Generated by $(src)/Makefile */" ;\
echo " .section .rodata" ;\
- echo " .p2align $(ASM_ALIGN)" ;\
+ echo " .p2align 4" ;\
echo "_fw_$(FWSTR)_bin:" ;\
echo " .incbin \"$(fwdir)/$(FWNAME)\"" ;\
echo "_fw_end:" ;\
--
2.20.1