[PATCH] x86, microcode, AMD: Restrict microcode reporting

[Borislav Petkov]

From: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@xxxxxxx>

bcb80e53877c ("x86, microcode, AMD: Add microcode revision to
/proc/cpuinfo") added support for dumping microcode patch level in
/proc/cpuinfo on AMD. Although we were very cautious and did rdmsr_safe
the microcode patch level MSR, this broke booting on Geode LX because
this CPU doesn't have that MSR and at the time we do the read, exception
tables which are used by rdmsr_safe are not yet initialized, leading to
the boot hang.

This is the simple fix which enables the microcode line in /proc/cpuinfo
for K8 and newer (it is not that interesting for older boxes anyway :-)).

Reported-and-bisected-and-tested-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAMLZHHTSuHZoPbm_YfB8G05JA+xKCE4+Jmj4NW8mnZUHogQSBA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@xxxxxxx>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c
index c7e46cb..a72d183 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c
@@ -474,7 +474,8 @@ static void __cpuinit early_init_amd(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
 	}
 #endif
 
-	rdmsr_safe(MSR_AMD64_PATCH_LEVEL, &c->microcode, &dummy);
+	if (c->x86 >= 0xf)
+		rdmsr_safe(MSR_AMD64_PATCH_LEVEL, &c->microcode, &dummy);
 }
 
 static void __cpuinit init_amd(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
-- 
1.7.8.rc0

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