Pull x86 microcode loader updates from Borislav Petkov:
- Move the zero-revision fixup for AMD microcode to the patch level
retrieval function and restrict it to Zen family processors, ensuring
patch level arithmetic always operates on a valid revision
- Fix an incorrect comment about which CPUID bit is checked when
determining whether the microcode loader should be disabled
- Add the latest Intel microcode revision data for a broad range of
processor models and steppings and add the script which generates the
header of minimum expected Intel microcode revisions
* tag 'x86_microcode_for_v7.2_rc1' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/microcode/AMD: Move the no-revision fixup to get_patch_level()
x86/microcode: Fix comment in microcode_loader_disabled()
scripts/x86/intel: Add a script to update the old microcode list
x86/microcode/intel: Refresh old_microcode defines with Nov 2025 release
Pull x86 cpuid updates from Ingo Molnar:
- CPUID API updates (Ahmed S. Darwish):
- Introduce a centralized CPUID parser
- Introduce a centralized CPUID data model
- Introduce <asm/cpuid/leaf_types.h>
- Rename cpuid_leaf()/cpuid_subleaf() APIs
- treewide: Explicitly include the x86 CPUID headers
- Update to x86-cpuid-db v3.1 (Maciej Wieczor-Retman)
- Continued removal of pre-i586 support and related simplifications
(Ingo Molnar)
- Add Intel CPU model number for rugged Panther Lake (Tony Luck)
- Misc fixes, updates and cleanups by Arnd Bergmann, Chao Gao, Lukas
Bulwahn, Sohil Mehta, Maciej Wieczor-Retman.
* tag 'x86-cpu-2026-06-14' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (25 commits)
x86/cpu: Make CONFIG_X86_CX8 unconditional
x86/cpu: Remove unused !CONFIG_X86_TSC code
x86/cpuid: Update bitfields to x86-cpuid-db v3.1
tools/x86/kcpuid: Update bitfields to x86-cpuid-db v3.1
x86/cpu: Make CONFIG_X86_TSC unconditional
MAINTAINERS: Drop obsolete FPU EMULATOR section
x86/cpu: Fix a F00F bug warning and clean up surrounding code
x86/cpu: Add Intel CPU model number for rugged Panther Lake
x86/cpuid: Introduce a centralized CPUID parser
x86/cpu: Introduce a centralized CPUID data model
x86/cpuid: Introduce <asm/cpuid/leaf_types.h>
x86/cpuid: Rename cpuid_leaf()/cpuid_subleaf() APIs
x86/cpu: Do not include the CPUID API header in asm/processor.h
Documentation: core-api/cpu_hotplug: Remove stale cpu0_hotplug docs
x86/cpu, cpufreq: Remove AMD ELAN support
x86/fpu: Remove the math-emu/ FPU emulation library
x86/fpu: Remove the 'no387' boot option
x86/fpu: Remove MATH_EMULATION and related glue code
treewide: Explicitly include the x86 CPUID headers
x86/cpu: Remove the CONFIG_X86_INVD_BUG quirk
...
On machines which don't have microcode applied yet, the revision is 0.
However, this doesn't work with the Zen family/model/stepping patch
arithmetic. So move the fixup to the patch level getter function and
this way make sure the patch level is always proper and thus the
arithmetic always works.
And now that it can be called on any family, make this Zen-only.
Assisted-by: claude/claude-opus-4-6
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260530024213.86137-1-bp@kernel.org
Patch in Fixes: causes the usual:
unchecked MSR access error: RDMSR from 0x17 at ... (intel_get_platform_id)
Call Trace:
early_init_intel
early_cpu_init
setup_arch
_printk
start_kernel
x86_64_start_reservations
x86_64_start_kernel
common_startup_64
because the kernel is booted in a guest.
In order to avoid it, this MSR access needs to be prevented when running
virtualized. That is usually done by checking X86_FEATURE_HYPERVISOR but
for this particular case it is too early yet.
The platform ID needs to be read as early as when microcode is loaded on
the BSP:
load_ucode_bsp ... -> get_microcode_blob ... -> intel_find_matching_signature
and by that time, CPUID leafs haven't been parsed yet.
The microcode loader already has logic to check early whether the kernel
is running virtualized so make that globally available to arch/x86/. The
query whether running virtualized is getting more and more prominent in
recent times so might as well make it an arch-global var which the rest
of the code can use.
Fixes: d8630b67ca ("x86/cpu: Add platform ID to CPU info structure")
Reported-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: Binbin Wu <binbin.wu@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com>
Tested-by: Binbin Wu <binbin.wu@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260430020953.1405535-1-binbin.wu@linux.intel.com
Modify all CPUID call sites which implicitly include any of the CPUID
headers to explicitly include them instead.
For KVM's reverse_cpuid.h, just include <asm/cpuid/types.h> since it
references the CPUID_EAX..EDX symbols without using the CPUID APIs.
Note, this allows removing the inclusion of <asm/cpuid/api.h> from within
<asm/processor.h> next. That allows the CPUID API headers to include
<asm/processor.h> without introducing a circular dependency.
Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwi@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260327021645.555257-1-darwi@linutronix.de
This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using
git grep -l '\<k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'
to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.
Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.
For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:
Single allocations: kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with: kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)
Array allocations: kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with: kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)
Flex array allocations: kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with: kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)
(where TYPE may also be *VAR)
The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Pull x86 microcode loading updates from Borislav Petkov:
- Add microcode staging support on Intel: it moves the sole microcode
blobs loading to a non-critical path so that microcode loading
latencies are kept at minimum. The actual "directing" the hardware to
load microcode is the only step which is done on the critical path.
This scheme is also opportunistic as in: on a failure, the machinery
falls back to normal loading
- Add the capability to the AMD side of the loader to select one of two
per-family/model/stepping patches: one is pre-Entrysign and the other
is post-Entrysign; with the goal to take care of machines which
haven't updated their BIOS yet - something they should absolutely do
as this is the only proper Entrysign fix
- Other small cleanups and fixlets
* tag 'x86_microcode_for_v6.19_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/microcode: Mark early_parse_cmdline() as __init
x86/microcode/AMD: Select which microcode patch to load
x86/microcode/intel: Enable staging when available
x86/microcode/intel: Support mailbox transfer
x86/microcode/intel: Implement staging handler
x86/microcode/intel: Define staging state struct
x86/microcode/intel: Establish staging control logic
x86/microcode: Introduce staging step to reduce late-loading time
x86/cpu/topology: Make primary thread mask available with SMP=n
All microcode patches up to the proper BIOS Entrysign fix are loaded
only after the sha256 signature carried in the driver has been verified.
Microcode patches after the Entrysign fix has been applied, do not need
that signature verification anymore.
In order to not abandon machines which haven't received the BIOS update
yet, add the capability to select which microcode patch to load.
The corresponding microcode container supplied through firmware-linux
has been modified to carry two patches per CPU type
(family/model/stepping) so that the proper one gets selected.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Tested-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251027133818.4363-1-bp@kernel.org
Limit Entrysign sha256 signature checking to CPUs in the range Zen1-Zen5.
X86_BUG cannot be used here because the loading on the BSP happens way
too early, before the cpufeatures machinery has been set up.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/all/20251023124629.5385-1-bp@kernel.org
Instead of adding ad-hoc debugging glue to the microcode loader each
time I need it, add debugging functionality which is not built by
default.
Simulate all patch handling the loader does except the actual loading of
the microcode patch into the hardware.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250820135043.19048-3-bp@kernel.org
Machines can be shipped without any microcode in the BIOS. Which means,
the microcode patch revision is 0.
Handle that gracefully.
Fixes: 94838d230a ("x86/microcode/AMD: Use the family,model,stepping encoded in the patch ID")
Reported-by: Vítek Vávra <vit.vavra.kh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Prepare to resolve conflicts with an upstream series of fixes that conflict
with pending x86 changes:
6f5bf947ba Merge tag 'its-for-linus-20250509' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Consolidate the whole logic which determines whether the microcode loader
should be enabled or not into a single function and call it everywhere.
Well, almost everywhere - not in mk_early_pgtbl_32() because there the kernel
is running without paging enabled and checking dis_ucode_ldr et al would
require physical addresses and uglification of the code.
But since this is 32-bit, the easier thing to do is to simply map the initrd
unconditionally especially since that mapping is getting removed later anyway
by zap_early_initrd_mapping() and avoid the uglification.
In doing so, address the issue of old 486er machines without CPUID
support, not booting current kernels.
[ mingo: Fix no previous prototype for ‘microcode_loader_disabled’ [-Wmissing-prototypes] ]
Fixes: 4c585af718 ("x86/boot/32: Temporarily map initrd for microcode loading")
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CANpbe9Wm3z8fy9HbgS8cuhoj0TREYEEkBipDuhgkWFvqX0UoVQ@mail.gmail.com
If microcode did not get loaded there is no reason to keep it in the cache.
Moreover, if loading failed it will not be possible to load an earlier version
of microcode since the failed revision will always be selected from the cache
on the next reload attempt.
Since the failed revisions is not easily available at this point just clean the
whole cache. It will be rebuilt later if needed.
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250327230503.1850368-3-boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Currently, load_microcode_amd() iterates over all NUMA nodes, retrieves their
CPU masks and unconditionally accesses per-CPU data for the first CPU of each
mask.
According to Documentation/admin-guide/mm/numaperf.rst:
"Some memory may share the same node as a CPU, and others are provided as
memory only nodes."
Therefore, some node CPU masks may be empty and wouldn't have a "first CPU".
On a machine with far memory (and therefore CPU-less NUMA nodes):
- cpumask_of_node(nid) is 0
- cpumask_first(0) is CONFIG_NR_CPUS
- cpu_data(CONFIG_NR_CPUS) accesses the cpu_info per-CPU array at an
index that is 1 out of bounds
This does not have any security implications since flashing microcode is
a privileged operation but I believe this has reliability implications by
potentially corrupting memory while flashing a microcode update.
When booting with CONFIG_UBSAN_BOUNDS=y on an AMD machine that flashes
a microcode update. I get the following splat:
UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/amd.c:X:Y
index 512 is out of range for type 'unsigned long[512]'
[...]
Call Trace:
dump_stack
__ubsan_handle_out_of_bounds
load_microcode_amd
request_microcode_amd
reload_store
kernfs_fop_write_iter
vfs_write
ksys_write
do_syscall_64
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe
Change the loop to go over only NUMA nodes which have CPUs before determining
whether the first CPU on the respective node needs microcode update.
[ bp: Massage commit message, fix typo. ]
Fixes: 7ff6edf4fe ("x86/microcode/AMD: Fix mixed steppings support")
Signed-off-by: Florent Revest <revest@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250310144243.861978-1-revest@chromium.org
Load patches for which the driver carries a SHA256 checksum of the patch
blob.
This can be disabled by adding "microcode.amd_sha_check=off" on the
kernel cmdline. But it is highly NOT recommended.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Instead of open-coding the check for size/data move it inside the
function and make it return a boolean indicating whether data was found
or not.
No functional changes.
[ bp: Write @ret in find_blobs_in_containers() only on success. ]
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <nik.borisov@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241018155151.702350-2-nik.borisov@suse.com
This function should've been split a long time ago because it is used in
two paths:
1) On the late loading path, when the microcode is loaded through the
request_firmware interface
2) In the save_microcode_in_initrd() path which collects all the
microcode patches which are relevant for the current system before
the initrd with the microcode container has been jettisoned.
In that path, it is not really necessary to iterate over the nodes on
a system and match a patch however it didn't cause any trouble so it
was left for a later cleanup
However, that later cleanup was expedited by the fact that Jens was
enabling "Use L3 as a NUMA node" in the BIOS setting in his machine and
so this causes the NUMA CPU masks used in cpumask_of_node() to be
generated *after* 2) above happened on the first node. Which means, all
those masks were funky, wrong, uninitialized and whatnot, leading to
explosions when dereffing c->microcode in load_microcode_amd().
So split that function and do only the necessary work needed at each
stage.
Fixes: 94838d230a ("x86/microcode/AMD: Use the family,model,stepping encoded in the patch ID")
Reported-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Tested-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/91194406-3fdf-4e38-9838-d334af538f74@kernel.dk
Commit in Fixes changed how a microcode patch is loaded on Zen and newer but
the patch matching needs to happen with different rigidity, depending on what
is being done:
1) When the patch is added to the patches cache, the stepping must be ignored
because the driver still supports different steppings per system
2) When the patch is matched for loading, then the stepping must be taken into
account because each CPU needs the patch matching its exact stepping
Take care of that by making the matching smarter.
Fixes: 94838d230a ("x86/microcode/AMD: Use the family,model,stepping encoded in the patch ID")
Reported-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Tested-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/91194406-3fdf-4e38-9838-d334af538f74@kernel.dk
Initialize equiv_id in order to shut up:
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/amd.c:714:6: warning: variable 'equiv_id' is \
used uninitialized whenever 'if' condition is false [-Wsometimes-uninitialized]
if (x86_family(bsp_cpuid_1_eax) < 0x17) {
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
because clang doesn't do interprocedural analysis for warnings to see
that this variable won't be used uninitialized.
Fixes: 94838d230a ("x86/microcode/AMD: Use the family,model,stepping encoded in the patch ID")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202407291815.gJBST0P3-lkp@intel.com/
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
On Zen and newer, the family, model and stepping is part of the
microcode patch ID so that the equivalence table the driver has been
using, is not needed anymore.
So switch the driver to use that from now on.
The equivalence table in the microcode blob should still remain in case
there's need to pass some additional information to the kernel loader.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240725112037.GBZqI1BbUk1KMlOJ_D@fat_crate.local
Older versions of clang show a warning for amd.c after a fix for a gcc
warning:
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/amd.c:478:47: error: format specifies type \
'unsigned char' but the argument has type 'u16' (aka 'unsigned short') [-Werror,-Wformat]
"amd-ucode/microcode_amd_fam%02hhxh.bin", family);
~~~~~~ ^~~~~~
%02hx
In clang-16 and higher, this warning is disabled by default, but clang-15 is
still supported, and it's trivial to avoid by adapting the types according
to the range of the passed data and the format string.
[ bp: Massage commit message. ]
Fixes: 2e9064facc ("x86/microcode/amd: Fix snprintf() format string warning in W=1 build")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240405204919.1003409-1-arnd@kernel.org
The AMD side of the loader issues the microcode revision for each
logical thread on the system, which can become really noisy on huge
machines. And doing that doesn't make a whole lot of sense - the
microcode revision is already in /proc/cpuinfo.
So in case one is interested in the theoretical support of mixed silicon
steppings on AMD, one can check there.
What is also missing on the AMD side - something which people have
requested before - is showing the microcode revision the CPU had
*before* the early update.
So abstract that up in the main code and have the BSP on each vendor
provide those revision numbers.
Then, dump them only once on driver init.
On Intel, do not dump the patch date - it is not needed.
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wg=%2B8rceshMkB4VnKxmRccVLtBLPBawnewZuuqyx5U=3A@mail.gmail.com
Applying microcode late can be fatal for the running kernel when the
update changes functionality which is in use already in a non-compatible
way, e.g. by removing a CPUID bit.
There is no way for admins which do not have access to the vendors deep
technical support to decide whether late loading of such a microcode is
safe or not.
Intel has added a new field to the microcode header which tells the
minimal microcode revision which is required to be active in the CPU in
order to be safe.
Provide infrastructure for handling this in the core code and a command
line switch which allows to enforce it.
If the update is considered safe the kernel is not tainted and the annoying
warning message not emitted. If it's enforced and the currently loaded
microcode revision is not safe for late loading then the load is aborted.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231017211724.079611170@linutronix.de
On CPUs where microcode loading is not NMI-safe the SMT siblings which
are parked in one of the play_dead() variants still react to NMIs.
So if an NMI hits while the primary thread updates the microcode the
resulting behaviour is undefined. The default play_dead() implementation on
modern CPUs is using MWAIT which is not guaranteed to be safe against
a microcode update which affects MWAIT.
Take the cpus_booted_once_mask into account to detect this case and
refuse to load late if the vendor specific driver does not advertise
that late loading is NMI safe.
AMD stated that this is safe, so mark the AMD driver accordingly.
This requirement will be partially lifted in later changes.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231002115903.087472735@linutronix.de
Now that the microcode cache is initialized before the APs are brought
up, there is no point in scanning builtin/initrd microcode during AP
loading.
Convert the AP loader to utilize the cache, which in turn makes the CPU
hotplug callback which applies the microcode after initrd/builtin is
gone, obsolete as the early loading during late hotplug operations
including the resume path depends now only on the cache.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231017211723.243426023@linutronix.de
