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Date:	Tue, 27 Jan 2015 23:12:31 +0100
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>
Cc:	James Dingwall <james@...gwall.me.uk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 3.18.2 / xen 4.4.1 dom0 - microcode oops

Hey Boris,

On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 04:30:02PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 09:53:04AM -0500, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> > Alternatively, we could return an error (-EINVAL?) from
> > microcode_init() when either of these two conditions is true.
> 
> Yeah, this should be the right fix.
> 
> James, does that fix your issue? (It should.)
> 
> ---
> 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();

would you do the honor and write a proper patch? You found the bug so...
:-D

Thanks.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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