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Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2022 00:34:50 +0100
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: Breno Leitao <leitao@...ian.org>, tglx@...utronix.de,
mingo@...hat.com, dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com, hpa@...or.com,
jpoimboe@...nel.org, peterz@...radead.org, x86@...nel.org,
cascardo@...onical.com, leit@...a.com, kexec@...ts.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] x86/bugs: Explicitly clear speculative MSR bits
On Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 03:02:19PM -0800, Pawan Gupta wrote:
> Yes thats a cleaner approach, except that the late microcode load will
> ruin the MSR:
>
> microcode_reload_late()
> microcode_check()
> get_cpu_cap()
> init_speculation_control()
Microcode late loading ruins a lot of crap already anyway.
Then I guess we'll have to look for a better place for this on the init
path - I don't want any more hackery in the hw vuln nightmare code.
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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