From 56c4a02fe0fc9fbdeee19eaef11c5b67c8bef371 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2018 02:32:25 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] x86/spectre_v2: Don't check microcode versions when running under hypervisors MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit commit 36268223c1e9981d6cfc33aff8520b3bde4b8114 upstream. As: 1) It's known that hypervisors lie about the environment anyhow (host mismatch) 2) Even if the hypervisor (Xen, KVM, VMWare, etc) provided a valid "correct" value, it all gets to be very murky when migration happens (do you provide the "new" microcode of the machine?). And in reality the cloud vendors are the ones that should make sure that the microcode that is running is correct and we should just sing lalalala and trust them. Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini Cc: Wanpeng Li Cc: kvm Cc: Krčmář Cc: Borislav Petkov CC: "H. Peter Anvin" CC: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180226213019.GE9497@char.us.oracle.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat Reviewed-by: Matt Helsley (VMware) Reviewed-by: Alexey Makhalov Reviewed-by: Bo Gan Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c index b69d258f9aae..dcc03498cf10 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c @@ -68,6 +68,13 @@ static bool bad_spectre_microcode(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) { int i; + /* + * We know that the hypervisor lie to us on the microcode version so + * we may as well hope that it is running the correct version. + */ + if (cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_HYPERVISOR)) + return false; + for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(spectre_bad_microcodes); i++) { if (c->x86_model == spectre_bad_microcodes[i].model && c->x86_mask == spectre_bad_microcodes[i].stepping)