This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86/srso: Don't probe microcode in a guest
to the 6.5-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-srso-don-t-probe-microcode-in-a-guest.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.5 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 2d25e1a5b314a3032494bd6e2f53892e2ea77b28
Author: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Sep 4 22:04:47 2023 -0700
x86/srso: Don't probe microcode in a guest
[ Upstream commit 02428d0366a27c2f33bc4361eb10467777804f29 ]
To support live migration, the hypervisor sets the "lowest common
denominator" of features. Probing the microcode isn't allowed because
any detected features might go away after a migration.
As Andy Cooper states:
"Linux must not probe microcode when virtualised. What it may see
instantaneously on boot (owing to MSR_PRED_CMD being fully passed
through) is not accurate for the lifetime of the VM."
Rely on the hypervisor to set the needed IBPB_BRTYPE and SBPB bits.
Fixes: 1b5277c0ea0b ("x86/srso: Add SRSO_NO support")
Suggested-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/3938a7209606c045a3f50305d201d840e8c834c7.1693889988.git.jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c
index b08af929135d9..28e77c5d6484a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c
@@ -767,7 +767,7 @@ static void early_init_amd(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
if (cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_TOPOEXT))
smp_num_siblings = ((cpuid_ebx(0x8000001e) >> 8) & 0xff) + 1;
- if (!cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_IBPB_BRTYPE)) {
+ if (!cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_HYPERVISOR) && !cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_IBPB_BRTYPE)) {
if (c->x86 == 0x17 && boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_AMD_IBPB))
setup_force_cpu_cap(X86_FEATURE_IBPB_BRTYPE);
else if (c->x86 >= 0x19 && !wrmsrl_safe(MSR_IA32_PRED_CMD, PRED_CMD_SBPB)) {
