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Date:	Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:34:22 +0200
From:	Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@....com>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
CC:	Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@....com>,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] x86, microcode: Ensure that module is only loaded for

From: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@....com>
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:51:57 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] x86, microcode: Ensure that module is only loaded for supported AMD CPUs

Exit early when there's no support for a particular CPU family. Also,
fixup the "no support for this CPU vendor" to be issued only when the
driver is attempted to be loaded on an unsupported vendor.

Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@...azian.fsnet.co.uk>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@....com>
[Boris: added a commit msg because Andreas is lazy]
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@....com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c  |   12 +++++++-----
 arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c |    6 +++---
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c b/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c
index 73465aa..8a2ce8f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c
@@ -82,11 +82,6 @@ static int collect_cpu_info_amd(int cpu, struct cpu_signature *csig)
 {
 	struct cpuinfo_x86 *c = &cpu_data(cpu);
 
-	if (c->x86_vendor != X86_VENDOR_AMD || c->x86 < 0x10) {
-		pr_warning("CPU%d: family %d not supported\n", cpu, c->x86);
-		return -1;
-	}
-
 	csig->rev = c->microcode;
 	pr_info("CPU%d: patch_level=0x%08x\n", cpu, csig->rev);
 
@@ -380,6 +375,13 @@ static struct microcode_ops microcode_amd_ops = {
 
 struct microcode_ops * __init init_amd_microcode(void)
 {
+	struct cpuinfo_x86 *c = &cpu_data(0);
+
+	if (c->x86_vendor != X86_VENDOR_AMD || c->x86 < 0x10) {
+		pr_warning("AMD CPU family 0x%x not supported\n", c->x86);
+		return NULL;
+	}
+
 	patch = (void *)get_zeroed_page(GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!patch)
 		return NULL;
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c b/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c
index d389e74..c9bda6d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c
@@ -526,11 +526,11 @@ static int __init microcode_init(void)
 		microcode_ops = init_intel_microcode();
 	else if (c->x86_vendor == X86_VENDOR_AMD)
 		microcode_ops = init_amd_microcode();
-
-	if (!microcode_ops) {
+	else
 		pr_err("no support for this CPU vendor\n");
+
+	if (!microcode_ops)
 		return -ENODEV;
-	}
 
 	microcode_pdev = platform_device_register_simple("microcode", -1,
 							 NULL, 0);
-- 
1.7.8.4

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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