Re: Hang when booting guest kernels compiled with clang after SRSO mitigations

From: Nathan Chancellor
Date: Thu Aug 10 2023 - 11:48:58 EST


On Thu, Aug 10, 2023 at 05:14:10PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 10, 2023 at 08:07:06AM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> > [ 2.408527] microcode: microcode updated early to new patch_level=0x0830107a
>
> Hm, a wild guess: can you boot the *host* with "dis_ucode_ldr" on the
> kernel cmdline and see if it still reproduces?

It does.

> Also, can you bisect rc5..master to see which exact patch is causing
> this?

Sure thing. I at least isolated it to the SRSO merge, so I will just
bisect that to see the exact commit that causes this.

Cheers,
Nathan