Re: AMD microcode loading broken on 32 bit

From: Boris Ostrovsky
Date: Tue Jan 28 2014 - 18:10:26 EST


On 01/28/2014 04:37 PM, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
On 01/28/2014 04:30 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
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:

The patch seems to have fixed the problem.

-boris


I'll give it a spin. Apparently the problem is currently in install_equiv_cpu_table()
when we are trying to index into buf and buf (which is container) doesn't appear
to be there.

Are you sure that

container = (u8 *)(__va((u32)relocated_ramdisk) +
((u32)container - boot_params.hdr.ramdisk_image));

in save_microcode_in_initrd_amd() always results in a valid pointer? It is non-NULL but it
points to address that looks to be not mapped.

-boris


---
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);
--



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