[PATCH 2/5] x86, microcode, AMD: Add a reusable buffer

[Borislav Petkov]

From: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@xxxxxxx>

Add a simple 4K page which gets allocated on driver init and freed on
driver exit instead of vmalloc'ing small buffers for each ucode patch.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@xxxxxxx>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c |    8 ++++++++
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c b/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c
index e8a68c2..9129c69 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c
@@ -71,6 +71,9 @@ struct microcode_amd {
 
 static struct equiv_cpu_entry *equiv_cpu_table;
 
+/* page-sized ucode patch buffer */
+void *patch;
+
 static int collect_cpu_info_amd(int cpu, struct cpu_signature *csig)
 {
 	struct cpuinfo_x86 *c = &cpu_data(cpu);
@@ -351,9 +354,14 @@ static struct microcode_ops microcode_amd_ops = {
 
 struct microcode_ops * __init init_amd_microcode(void)
 {
+	patch = (void *)get_zeroed_page(GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!patch)
+		return NULL;
+
 	return &microcode_amd_ops;
 }
 
 void __exit exit_amd_microcode(void)
 {
+	free_page((unsigned long)patch);
 }
-- 
1.7.8.rc0

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