From aba67809aef2b283b275abe4f4dd14a2ca8d9d7d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 09:35:01 -0500 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" Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180226213019.GE9497@char.us.oracle.com Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- 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 4653204d49b7..aa3d005ad648 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)