4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 07d981ad4cf1e78361c6db1c28ee5ba105f96cc1 upstream The kernel unnecessarily prevents late microcode loading when SMT is disabled. It should be safe to allow it if all the primary threads are online. Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c | 16 ++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c @@ -386,12 +386,20 @@ static struct platform_device *microcode static int check_online_cpus(void) { - if (num_online_cpus() == num_present_cpus()) - return 0; + unsigned int cpu; - pr_err("Not all CPUs online, aborting microcode update.\n"); + /* + * Make sure all CPUs are online. It's fine for SMT to be disabled if + * all the primary threads are still online. + */ + for_each_present_cpu(cpu) { + if (topology_is_primary_thread(cpu) && !cpu_online(cpu)) { + pr_err("Not all CPUs online, aborting microcode update.\n"); + return -EINVAL; + } + } - return -EINVAL; + return 0; } static int reload_for_cpu(int cpu)