linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] microcode loader updates

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Message-ID: <20150302123441.GB17521@pd.tnic>
Date:	Mon, 2 Mar 2015 13:34:41 +0100
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	x86-ml <x86@...nel.org>
Cc:	Quentin Casasnovas <quentin.casasnovas@...cle.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [GIT PULL] microcode loader updates

Hi guys,

here's the first pile of microcode loader cleanups for 4.1.

Please pull,
thanks.

---
The following changes since commit c517d838eb7d07bbe9507871fab3931deccff539:

  Linux 4.0-rc1 (2015-02-22 18:21:14 -0800)

are available in the git repository at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bp/bp.git tags/intel_microcode_cleanup_p1

for you to fetch changes up to 94a7cbf93996711a32e286488b8523740d6a19f0:

  x86/microcode/intel: Fix printing of microcode blobs in show_saved_mc() (2015-03-02 10:07:36 +0100)

----------------------------------------------------------------
The first part of the scrubbing of the intel early microcode loader.
There's more work to come but let's unload this pile first.

----------------------------------------------------------------
Borislav Petkov (13):
      x86/microcode/intel: Check if microcode was found before applying
      x86/microcode/intel: Do the mc_saved_src NULL check first
      x86/microcode/intel: Get rid of last arg to load_ucode_intel_bsp()
      x86/microcode/intel: Simplify load_ucode_intel_bsp()
      x86/microcode/intel: Make _save_mc() return the updated saved count
      x86/microcode/intel: Sanitize _save_mc()
      x86/microcode/intel: Rename update_match_revision()
      x86/microcode: Consolidate family,model, ... code
      x86/microcode/intel: Simplify generic_load_microcode_early()
      x86/microcode/intel: Move mc arg last in get_matching_{microcode|sig}
      x86/microcode/intel: Sanitize microcode_pointer()
      x86/microcode/intel: Check scan_microcode()'s retval
      x86/microcode/intel: Fix printing of microcode blobs in show_saved_mc()

Quentin Casasnovas (1):
      x86/microcode/intel: Fix out of bounds memory access to the extended header

 arch/x86/include/asm/microcode.h            |  73 ++++++
 arch/x86/include/asm/microcode_intel.h      |  13 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core_early.c  |  75 +-----
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c       |   4 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel_early.c | 344 +++++++++++++---------------
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel_lib.c   |  22 +-
 6 files changed, 259 insertions(+), 272 deletions(-)

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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