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    x86/speculation: Correct Speculation Control microcode blacklist again · d37fc6d3
    David Woodhouse authored
    Arjan points out that the Intel document only clears the 0xc2 microcode
    on *some* parts with CPUID 506E3 (INTEL_FAM6_SKYLAKE_DESKTOP stepping 3).
    For the Skylake H/S platform it's OK but for Skylake E3 which has the
    same CPUID it isn't (yet) cleared.
    
    So removing it from the blacklist was premature. Put it back for now.
    
    Also, Arjan assures me that the 0x84 microcode for Kaby Lake which was
    featured in one of the early revisions of the Intel document was never
    released to the public, and won't be until/unless it is also validated
    as safe. So those can change to 0x80 which is what all *other* versions
    of the doc have identified.
    
    Once the retrospective testing of existing public microcodes is done, we
    should be back into a mode where new microcodes are only released in
    batches and we shouldn't even need to update the blacklist for those
    anyway, so this tweaking of the list isn't expected to be a thing which
    keeps happening.
    Requested-by: default avatarArjan van de Ven <arjan.van.de.ven@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
    Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
    Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
    Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
    Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
    Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
    Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
    Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
    Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
    Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Cc: arjan.van.de.ven@intel.com
    Cc: dave.hansen@intel.com
    Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
    Cc: pbonzini@redhat.com
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1518449255-2182-1-git-send-email-dwmw@amazon.co.ukSigned-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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