x86/microcode/intel: Move the BUG_ON up and turn it into WARN_ON
authorBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Wed, 3 Feb 2016 11:33:38 +0000 (12:33 +0100)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tue, 9 Feb 2016 10:41:17 +0000 (11:41 +0100)
If we're going to BUG_ON() because we're running on the wrong CPU, we
better do it as the first thing we do when entering that function. And
also, turn it into a WARN_ON() because it is not worth to panic the
system if we apply the microcode on the wrong CPU - we're simply going
to exit early.

Tested-by: Thomas Voegtle <tv@lio96.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1454499225-21544-11-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c

index d1b2f58..c029c2b 100644 (file)
@@ -843,12 +843,12 @@ static int apply_microcode_intel(int cpu)
        int cpu_num = raw_smp_processor_id();
        struct cpuinfo_x86 *c = &cpu_data(cpu_num);
 
-       uci = ucode_cpu_info + cpu;
-       mc = uci->mc;
-
        /* We should bind the task to the CPU */
-       BUG_ON(cpu_num != cpu);
+       if (WARN_ON(cpu_num != cpu))
+               return -1;
 
+       uci = ucode_cpu_info + cpu;
+       mc = uci->mc;
        if (!mc)
                return 0;