[RFC PATCH 1/3] x86/microcode: Rip out the OLD_INTERFACE

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Tue May 24 2022 - 14:53:47 EST


From: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>

Everything should be using the early initrd loading by now.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/Kconfig | 12 ----
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c | 100 ---------------------------
2 files changed, 112 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 2e8f6fd28e59..1c0da2dbfb26 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -1345,18 +1345,6 @@ config MICROCODE_AMD
If you select this option, microcode patch loading support for AMD
processors will be enabled.

-config MICROCODE_OLD_INTERFACE
- bool "Ancient loading interface (DEPRECATED)"
- default n
- depends on MICROCODE
- help
- DO NOT USE THIS! This is the ancient /dev/cpu/microcode interface
- which was used by userspace tools like iucode_tool and microcode.ctl.
- It is inadequate because it runs too late to be able to properly
- load microcode on a machine and it needs special tools. Instead, you
- should've switched to the early loading method with the initrd or
- builtin microcode by now: Documentation/x86/microcode.rst
-
config X86_MSR
tristate "/dev/cpu/*/msr - Model-specific register support"
help
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c
index 239ff5fcec6a..b72c4134f289 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c
@@ -373,98 +373,6 @@ static int apply_microcode_on_target(int cpu)
return ret;
}

-#ifdef CONFIG_MICROCODE_OLD_INTERFACE
-static int do_microcode_update(const void __user *buf, size_t size)
-{
- int error = 0;
- int cpu;
-
- for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
- struct ucode_cpu_info *uci = ucode_cpu_info + cpu;
- enum ucode_state ustate;
-
- if (!uci->valid)
- continue;
-
- ustate = microcode_ops->request_microcode_user(cpu, buf, size);
- if (ustate == UCODE_ERROR) {
- error = -1;
- break;
- } else if (ustate == UCODE_NEW) {
- apply_microcode_on_target(cpu);
- }
- }
-
- return error;
-}
-
-static int microcode_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
-{
- return capable(CAP_SYS_RAWIO) ? stream_open(inode, file) : -EPERM;
-}
-
-static ssize_t microcode_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
- size_t len, loff_t *ppos)
-{
- ssize_t ret = -EINVAL;
- unsigned long nr_pages = totalram_pages();
-
- if ((len >> PAGE_SHIFT) > nr_pages) {
- pr_err("too much data (max %ld pages)\n", nr_pages);
- return ret;
- }
-
- cpus_read_lock();
- mutex_lock(&microcode_mutex);
-
- if (do_microcode_update(buf, len) == 0)
- ret = (ssize_t)len;
-
- if (ret > 0)
- perf_check_microcode();
-
- mutex_unlock(&microcode_mutex);
- cpus_read_unlock();
-
- return ret;
-}
-
-static const struct file_operations microcode_fops = {
- .owner = THIS_MODULE,
- .write = microcode_write,
- .open = microcode_open,
- .llseek = no_llseek,
-};
-
-static struct miscdevice microcode_dev = {
- .minor = MICROCODE_MINOR,
- .name = "microcode",
- .nodename = "cpu/microcode",
- .fops = &microcode_fops,
-};
-
-static int __init microcode_dev_init(void)
-{
- int error;
-
- error = misc_register(&microcode_dev);
- if (error) {
- pr_err("can't misc_register on minor=%d\n", MICROCODE_MINOR);
- return error;
- }
-
- return 0;
-}
-
-static void __exit microcode_dev_exit(void)
-{
- misc_deregister(&microcode_dev);
-}
-#else
-#define microcode_dev_init() 0
-#define microcode_dev_exit() do { } while (0)
-#endif
-
/* fake device for request_firmware */
static struct platform_device *microcode_pdev;

@@ -856,10 +764,6 @@ static int __init microcode_init(void)
goto out_driver;
}

- error = microcode_dev_init();
- if (error)
- goto out_ucode_group;
-
register_syscore_ops(&mc_syscore_ops);
cpuhp_setup_state_nocalls(CPUHP_AP_MICROCODE_LOADER, "x86/microcode:starting",
mc_cpu_starting, NULL);
@@ -870,10 +774,6 @@ static int __init microcode_init(void)

return 0;

- out_ucode_group:
- sysfs_remove_group(&cpu_subsys.dev_root->kobj,
- &cpu_root_microcode_group);
-
out_driver:
cpus_read_lock();
mutex_lock(&microcode_mutex);
--
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