Re: AMD microcode loading broken on 32 bit

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Tue Jan 28 2014 - 16:30:51 EST


On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 04:05:20PM -0500, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> Yes. This was a bug in our build environment. It is fixed now but I
> put this bug back when I was testing your patch.

Right, that was the deal. Oh well, we'd need to verify the container
too, I guess:

---
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/amd_early.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/amd_early.c
index 8384c0fa206f..c568b6c9af95 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/amd_early.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/amd_early.c
@@ -37,10 +37,12 @@ static __initdata char ucode_path[] = "kernel/x86/microcode/AuthenticAMD.bin";

static struct cpio_data __init find_ucode_in_initrd(void)
{
+ struct cpio_data ret;
long offset = 0;
char *path;
void *start;
size_t size;
+ u32 *hdr;

#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
struct boot_params *p;
@@ -59,7 +61,18 @@ static struct cpio_data __init find_ucode_in_initrd(void)
size = boot_params.hdr.ramdisk_size;
#endif

- return find_cpio_data(path, start, size, &offset);
+ ret = find_cpio_data(path, start, size, &offset);
+
+ /* Verify we didn't get some garbage from the initrd. */
+ hdr = (u32 *)ret.data;
+
+ if (hdr[0] != UCODE_MAGIC ||
+ hdr[1] != UCODE_EQUIV_CPU_TABLE_TYPE ||
+ hdr[2] == 0) {
+ ret.data = NULL;
+ ret.size = 0;
+ }
+ return ret;
}

static size_t compute_container_size(u8 *data, u32 total_size)
@@ -359,7 +372,7 @@ int __init save_microcode_in_initrd_amd(void)
pr_info("microcode: updated early to new patch_level=0x%08x\n",
ucode_new_rev);

- if (!container)
+ if (!container || !ucode_cpio.data)
return -EINVAL;

eax = cpuid_eax(0x00000001);
--

--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine.
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