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1 files changed, 32 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c
index e306feeb374f..7af1b60527ec 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c
@@ -254,23 +254,6 @@ static struct platform_device *microcode_pdev;
*/
#define SPINUNIT 100 /* 100 nsec */
-static int check_online_cpus(void)
-{
- unsigned int cpu;
-
- /*
- * 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 0;
-}
static atomic_t late_cpus_in;
static atomic_t late_cpus_out;
@@ -387,6 +370,35 @@ static int microcode_reload_late(void)
return ret;
}
+/*
+ * Ensure that all required CPUs which are present and have been booted
+ * once are online.
+ *
+ * To pass this check, all primary threads must be online.
+ *
+ * If the microcode load is not safe against NMI then all SMT threads
+ * must be online as well because they still react to NMIs when they are
+ * soft-offlined and parked in one of the play_dead() variants. So if a
+ * NMI hits while the primary thread updates the microcode the resulting
+ * behaviour is undefined. The default play_dead() implementation on
+ * modern CPUs uses MWAIT, which is also not guaranteed to be safe
+ * against a microcode update which affects MWAIT.
+ */
+static bool ensure_cpus_are_online(void)
+{
+ unsigned int cpu;
+
+ for_each_cpu_and(cpu, cpu_present_mask, &cpus_booted_once_mask) {
+ if (!cpu_online(cpu)) {
+ if (topology_is_primary_thread(cpu) || !microcode_ops->nmi_safe) {
+ pr_err("CPU %u not online\n", cpu);
+ return false;
+ }
+ }
+ }
+ return true;
+}
+
static ssize_t reload_store(struct device *dev,
struct device_attribute *attr,
const char *buf, size_t size)
@@ -402,9 +414,10 @@ static ssize_t reload_store(struct device *dev,
cpus_read_lock();
- ret = check_online_cpus();
- if (ret)
+ if (!ensure_cpus_are_online()) {
+ ret = -EBUSY;
goto put;
+ }
tmp_ret = microcode_ops->request_microcode_fw(bsp, &microcode_pdev->dev);
if (tmp_ret != UCODE_NEW)