Re: [patch V3 08/30] x86/microcode/intel: Save the microcode only after a successful late-load

[Borislav Petkov]

On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 09:57:56AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> There are situations where the late microcode is loaded into memory, but is
> not applied:
> 
>   1) The rendevouz fails
>   2) The microcode is rejected by the CPUs
> 
> If any of this happens then the pointer which was updated at firmware load
> time is stale and subsequent CPU hotplug operations either fail to update
> or create inconsistent microcode state.
> 
> Save the loaded microcode in a separate pointer from with the late load is

s/from with/before/

> attempted and when successful, update the hotplug pointer accordingly via a
> new micrcode_ops callback.

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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