x86/microcode: Do the family check first

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On CPUs like AMD's Geode, for example, we shouldn't even try to load
microcode because they do not support the modern microcode loading
interface.

However, we do the family check *after* the other checks whether the
loader has been disabled on the command line or whether we're running in
a guest.

So move the family checks first in order to exit early if we're being
loaded on an unsupported family.

Reported-and-tested-by: Sven Glodowski <glodi1@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.11..
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1061396
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171012112316.977-1-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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Borislav Petkov 2017-10-12 13:23:16 +02:00 • committed by Ingo Molnar

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