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Jari Ruusu 236f11558a Fix built-in early-load Intel microcode alignment
commit f5ae2ea6347a308cfe91f53b53682ce635497d0d upstream.

Intel Software Developer's Manual, volume 3, chapter 9.11.6 says:

 "Note that the microcode update must be aligned on a 16-byte boundary
  and the size of the microcode update must be 1-KByte granular"

When early-load Intel microcode is loaded from initramfs, userspace tool
'iucode_tool' has already 16-byte aligned those microcode bits in that
initramfs image.  Image that was created something like this:

 iucode_tool --write-earlyfw=FOO.cpio microcode-files...

However, when early-load Intel microcode is loaded from built-in
firmware BLOB using CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE= kernel config option, that
16-byte alignment is not guaranteed.

Fix this by forcing all built-in firmware BLOBs to 16-byte alignment.

[ If we end up having other firmware with much bigger alignment
  requirements, we might need to introduce some method for the firmware
  to specify it, this is the minimal "just increase the alignment a bit
  to account for this one special case" patch    - Linus ]

Signed-off-by: Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@gmail.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2020-01-23 08:22:31 +01:00
arch arm64: dts: agilex/stratix10: fix pmu interrupt numbers 2020-01-23 08:22:31 +01:00
block fs: move guard_bio_eod() after bio_set_op_attrs 2020-01-17 19:48:21 +01:00
certs
crypto crypto: algif_skcipher - Use chunksize instead of blocksize 2020-01-17 19:48:46 +01:00
Documentation mei: fix modalias documentation 2020-01-17 19:48:48 +01:00
drivers Fix built-in early-load Intel microcode alignment 2020-01-23 08:22:31 +01:00
fs ocfs2: call journal flush to mark journal as empty after journal recovery when mount 2020-01-17 19:49:08 +01:00
include dt-bindings: reset: meson8b: fix duplicate reset IDs 2020-01-23 08:22:28 +01:00
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kernel keys: Fix request_key() cache 2020-01-17 19:48:42 +01:00
lib sbitmap: only queue kyber's wait callback if not already active 2020-01-12 12:21:44 +01:00
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mm uaccess: Add non-pagefault user-space write function 2020-01-17 19:48:40 +01:00
net rxrpc: Fix missing security check on incoming calls 2020-01-17 19:49:05 +01:00
samples samples: bpf: fix syscall_tp due to unused syscall 2020-01-12 12:21:26 +01:00
scripts kbuild/deb-pkg: annotate libelf-dev dependency as :native 2020-01-17 19:49:07 +01:00
security tomoyo: Suppress RCU warning at list_for_each_entry_rcu(). 2020-01-17 19:49:05 +01:00
sound ALSA: usb-audio: fix sync-ep altsetting sanity check 2020-01-23 08:22:31 +01:00
tools rseq/selftests: Turn off timeout setting 2020-01-17 19:49:04 +01:00
usr gen_initramfs_list.sh: fix 'bad variable name' error 2020-01-09 10:20:00 +01:00
virt KVM: arm/arm64: Properly handle faulting of device mappings 2019-12-31 16:46:24 +01:00
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