x86/CPU: Check CPU feature bits after microcode upgrade

With some microcode upgrades, new CPUID features can become visible on
the CPU. Check what the kernel has mirrored now and issue a warning
hinting at possible things the user/admin can do to make use of the
newly visible features.

Originally-by: Ashok Raj <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Ashok Raj <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ashok Raj <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Dan Williams <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: David Woodhouse <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
index 84f1cd88608b..348cf4821240 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
@@ -1757,5 +1757,25 @@ core_initcall(init_cpu_syscore);
  */
 void microcode_check(void)
 {
+	struct cpuinfo_x86 info;
+
 	perf_check_microcode();
+
+	/* Reload CPUID max function as it might've changed. */
+	info.cpuid_level = cpuid_eax(0);
+
+	/*
+	 * Copy all capability leafs to pick up the synthetic ones so that
+	 * memcmp() below doesn't fail on that. The ones coming from CPUID will
+	 * get overwritten in get_cpu_cap().
+	 */
+	memcpy(&info.x86_capability, &boot_cpu_data.x86_capability, sizeof(info.x86_capability));
+
+	get_cpu_cap(&info);
+
+	if (!memcmp(&info.x86_capability, &boot_cpu_data.x86_capability, sizeof(info.x86_capability)))
+		return;
+
+	pr_warn("x86/CPU: CPU features have changed after loading microcode, but might not take effect.\n");
+	pr_warn("x86/CPU: Please consider either early loading through initrd/built-in or a potential BIOS update.\n");
 }