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x86/spectre_v2: Don't check microcode versions when running under hypervisors
authorKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Mon, 26 Feb 2018 14:35:01 +0000 (09:35 -0500)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Thu, 8 Mar 2018 09:13:02 +0000 (10:13 +0100)
commit629e7abf0072d12db823c7b9b6c8f65cc9e8e9eb
tree18cae517b606794c28c39d0446b55c99b9e80612
parentba2d3bb73f31f8e10e4304e0ba48c73647972286
x86/spectre_v2: Don't check microcode versions when running under hypervisors

As:

 1) It's known that hypervisors lie about the environment anyhow (host
    mismatch)

 2) Even if the hypervisor (Xen, KVM, VMWare, etc) provided a valid
    "correct" value, it all gets to be very murky when migration happens
    (do you provide the "new" microcode of the machine?).

And in reality the cloud vendors are the ones that should make sure that
the microcode that is running is correct and we should just sing lalalala
and trust them.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com>
Cc: kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
CC: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180226213019.GE9497@char.us.oracle.com
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c