linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] x86 fix

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Date:	Fri, 6 Feb 2015 19:41:05 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [GIT PULL] x86 fix

Linus,

Please pull the latest x86-urgent-for-linus git tree from:

   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git x86-urgent-for-linus

   # HEAD: 6d84d1d13081dca4b6bd532fb8b95a7ed5a816dd Merge tag 'microcode_fix_for_3.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bp/bp into x86/urgent

An x86 microcode driver oops fix.

 Thanks,

	Ingo

------------------>
Boris Ostrovsky (1):
      x86, microcode: Return error from driver init code when loader is disabled


 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c
index 15c29096136b..36a83617eb21 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c
@@ -552,7 +552,7 @@ static int __init microcode_init(void)
 	int error;
 
 	if (paravirt_enabled() || dis_ucode_ldr)
-		return 0;
+		return -EINVAL;
 
 	if (c->x86_vendor == X86_VENDOR_INTEL)
 		microcode_ops = init_intel_microcode();
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