This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled x86/microcode/intel: Check patch signature before saving microcode for early loading to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: x86-microcode-intel-check-patch-signature-before-saving-microcode-for-early-loading.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 1a371e67dc77125736cc56d3a0893f06b75855b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2020 09:59:23 +0800 Subject: x86/microcode/intel: Check patch signature before saving microcode for early loading From: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@xxxxxxxxx> commit 1a371e67dc77125736cc56d3a0893f06b75855b6 upstream. Currently, scan_microcode() leverages microcode_matches() to check if the microcode matches the CPU by comparing the family and model. However, the processor stepping and flags of the microcode signature should also be considered when saving a microcode patch for early update. Use find_matching_signature() in scan_microcode() and get rid of the now-unused microcode_matches() which is a good cleanup in itself. Complete the verification of the patch being saved for early loading in save_microcode_patch() directly. This needs to be done there too because save_mc_for_early() will call save_microcode_patch() too. The second reason why this needs to be done is because the loader still tries to support, at least hypothetically, mixed-steppings systems and thus adds all patches to the cache that belong to the same CPU model albeit with different steppings. For example: microcode: CPU: sig=0x906ec, pf=0x2, rev=0xd6 microcode: mc_saved[0]: sig=0x906e9, pf=0x2a, rev=0xd6, total size=0x19400, date = 2020-04-23 microcode: mc_saved[1]: sig=0x906ea, pf=0x22, rev=0xd6, total size=0x19000, date = 2020-04-27 microcode: mc_saved[2]: sig=0x906eb, pf=0x2, rev=0xd6, total size=0x19400, date = 2020-04-23 microcode: mc_saved[3]: sig=0x906ec, pf=0x22, rev=0xd6, total size=0x19000, date = 2020-04-27 microcode: mc_saved[4]: sig=0x906ed, pf=0x22, rev=0xd6, total size=0x19400, date = 2020-04-23 The patch which is being saved for early loading, however, can only be the one which fits the CPU this runs on so do the signature verification before saving. [ bp: Do signature verification in save_microcode_patch() and rewrite commit message. ] Fixes: ec400ddeff20 ("x86/microcode_intel_early.c: Early update ucode on Intel's CPU") Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208535 Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201113015923.13960-1-yu.c.chen@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c | 48 +--------------------------------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-) --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c @@ -147,51 +147,6 @@ load_microcode(struct mc_saved_data *mcs } } -/* - * Given CPU signature and a microcode patch, this function finds if the - * microcode patch has matching family and model with the CPU. - */ -static enum ucode_state -matching_model_microcode(struct microcode_header_intel *mc_header, - unsigned long sig) -{ - unsigned int fam, model; - unsigned int fam_ucode, model_ucode; - struct extended_sigtable *ext_header; - unsigned long total_size = get_totalsize(mc_header); - unsigned long data_size = get_datasize(mc_header); - int ext_sigcount, i; - struct extended_signature *ext_sig; - - fam = x86_family(sig); - model = x86_model(sig); - - fam_ucode = x86_family(mc_header->sig); - model_ucode = x86_model(mc_header->sig); - - if (fam == fam_ucode && model == model_ucode) - return UCODE_OK; - - /* Look for ext. headers: */ - if (total_size <= data_size + MC_HEADER_SIZE) - return UCODE_NFOUND; - - ext_header = (void *) mc_header + data_size + MC_HEADER_SIZE; - ext_sig = (void *)ext_header + EXT_HEADER_SIZE; - ext_sigcount = ext_header->count; - - for (i = 0; i < ext_sigcount; i++) { - fam_ucode = x86_family(ext_sig->sig); - model_ucode = x86_model(ext_sig->sig); - - if (fam == fam_ucode && model == model_ucode) - return UCODE_OK; - - ext_sig++; - } - return UCODE_NFOUND; -} - static int save_microcode(struct mc_saved_data *mcs, struct microcode_intel **mc_saved_src, @@ -332,7 +287,8 @@ get_matching_model_microcode(unsigned lo * the platform, we need to find and save microcode patches * with the same family and model as the BSP. */ - if (matching_model_microcode(mc_header, uci->cpu_sig.sig) != UCODE_OK) { + if (!find_matching_signature(mc_header, uci->cpu_sig.sig, + uci->cpu_sig.pf)) { ucode_ptr += mc_size; continue; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from yu.c.chen@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/x86-microcode-intel-check-patch-signature-before-saving-microcode-for-early-loading.patch