Commit 44c4db3a authored by Boris Ostrovsky's avatar Boris Ostrovsky Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86, microcode: Don't initialize microcode code on paravirt

commit a18a0f68 upstream.

Paravirtual guests are not expected to load microcode into processors
and therefore it is not necessary to initialize microcode loading
logic.

In fact, under certain circumstances initializing this logic may cause
the guest to crash. Specifically, 32-bit kernels use __pa_nodebug()
macro which does not work in Xen (the code path that leads to this macro
happens during resume when we call mc_bp_resume()->load_ucode_ap()
->check_loader_disabled_ap())
Signed-off-by: default avatarBoris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1417469264-31470-1-git-send-email-boris.ostrovsky@oracle.comSigned-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 97d0906a
......@@ -559,7 +559,7 @@ static int __init microcode_init(void)
struct cpuinfo_x86 *c = &cpu_data(0);
int error;
if (dis_ucode_ldr)
if (paravirt_enabled() || dis_ucode_ldr)
return 0;
if (c->x86_vendor == X86_VENDOR_INTEL)
......
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