Patch "x86/microcode/AMD: Add support for fam17h microcode loading" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    x86/microcode/AMD: Add support for fam17h microcode 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-amd-add-support-for-fam17h-microcode-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 f4e9b7af0cd58dd039a0fb2cd67d57cea4889abf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 16:46:40 -0600
Subject: x86/microcode/AMD: Add support for fam17h microcode loading

From: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@xxxxxxx>

commit f4e9b7af0cd58dd039a0fb2cd67d57cea4889abf upstream.

The size for the Microcode Patch Block (MPB) for an AMD family 17h
processor is 3200 bytes.  Add a #define for fam17h so that it does
not default to 2048 bytes and fail a microcode load/update.

Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171130224640.15391.40247.stgit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alice Ferrazzi <alicef@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/amd.c |    4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/amd.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/amd.c
@@ -592,6 +592,7 @@ static unsigned int verify_patch_size(u8
 #define F14H_MPB_MAX_SIZE 1824
 #define F15H_MPB_MAX_SIZE 4096
 #define F16H_MPB_MAX_SIZE 3458
+#define F17H_MPB_MAX_SIZE 3200
 
 	switch (family) {
 	case 0x14:
@@ -603,6 +604,9 @@ static unsigned int verify_patch_size(u8
 	case 0x16:
 		max_size = F16H_MPB_MAX_SIZE;
 		break;
+	case 0x17:
+		max_size = F17H_MPB_MAX_SIZE;
+		break;
 	default:
 		max_size = F1XH_MPB_MAX_SIZE;
 		break;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from thomas.lendacky@xxxxxxx are

queue-4.9/x86-microcode-amd-add-support-for-fam17h-microcode-loading.patch



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