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authorBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>2018-03-14 19:36:14 +0100
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2018-03-16 20:55:51 +0100
commit2613f36ed965d0e5a595a1d931fd3b480e82d6fd (patch)
tree47c242f71716d90d80c84f6e8c2ac576737fc4a3 /arch/x86/include/asm
parente3b3121fa8da94cb20f9e0c64ab7981ae47fd085 (diff)
x86/microcode: Attempt late loading only when new microcode is present
Return UCODE_NEW from the scanning functions to denote that new microcode was found and only then attempt the expensive synchronization dance. Reported-by: Emanuel Czirai <xftroxgpx@protonmail.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Tested-by: Emanuel Czirai <xftroxgpx@protonmail.com> Tested-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Tested-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180314183615.17629-1-bp@alien8.de
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/microcode.h1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/microcode.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/microcode.h
index 7fb1047d61c7..6cf0e4cb7b97 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/microcode.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/microcode.h
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ struct device;
enum ucode_state {
UCODE_OK = 0,
+ UCODE_NEW,
UCODE_UPDATED,
UCODE_NFOUND,
UCODE_ERROR,