x86/microcode/intel: Clear patch pointer before jettisoning the initrd
authorDominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Wed, 7 Jun 2017 09:58:19 +0000 (11:58 +0200)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Thu, 8 Jun 2017 08:03:05 +0000 (10:03 +0200)
commit5b0bc9ac2ce4881ee318a21f31140584ce4dbdad
treebb99551d3d91384aba41de14e3c42c60200289d1
parentae1d557d8f30cb097b4d1f2ab04fa294588ee1cf
x86/microcode/intel: Clear patch pointer before jettisoning the initrd

During early boot, load_ucode_intel_ap() uses __load_ucode_intel()
to obtain a pointer to the relevant microcode patch (embedded in the
initrd), and stores this value in 'intel_ucode_patch' to speed up the
microcode patch application for subsequent CPUs.

On resuming from suspend-to-RAM, however, load_ucode_ap() calls
load_ucode_intel_ap() for each non-boot-CPU. By then the initramfs is
long gone so the pointer stored in 'intel_ucode_patch' no longer points to
a valid microcode patch.

Clear that pointer so that we effectively fall back to the CPU hotplug
notifier callbacks to update the microcode.

Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
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Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.10..
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170607095819.9754-1-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c