linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] x86/microcode updates for 5.2

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Message-ID: <20190506090632.GC6094@zn.tnic>
Date:   Mon, 6 May 2019 11:06:32 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     x86-ml <x86@...nel.org>, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [GIT PULL] x86/microcode updates for 5.2

Hi Linus,

please pull

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

to receive a nice Intel microcode blob loading cleanup which gets rid
of the ugly memcpy wrappers and switches the driver to use the iov_iter
API. By Jann Horn.

In addition, the /dev/cpu/microcode interface is finally deprecated as it is
inadequate for the same reasons the late microcode loading is.

Thx.

---
The following changes since commit 79a3aaa7b82e3106be97842dedfd8429248896e6:

  Linux 5.1-rc3 (2019-03-31 14:39:29 -0700)

are available in the Git repository at:

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

for you to fetch changes up to c02f48e070bde326f55bd94544ca82291f7396e3:

  x86/microcode: Deprecate MICROCODE_OLD_INTERFACE (2019-04-10 22:43:24 +0200)

----------------------------------------------------------------
Borislav Petkov (2):
      x86/microcode: Fix the ancient deprecated microcode loading method
      x86/microcode: Deprecate MICROCODE_OLD_INTERFACE

Jann Horn (1):
      x86/microcode/intel: Refactor Intel microcode blob loading

 arch/x86/Kconfig                      | 10 ++++-
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c  |  3 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c | 71 ++++++++++++++++++-----------------
 3 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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