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authorSrivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2012-04-16 14:12:00 +0530
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2012-05-07 14:37:14 +0200
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x86/microcode: Ensure that module is only loaded on supported Intel CPUs
Exit early when there's no support for a particular CPU family. Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk Cc: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4F8BDB58.6070007@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel.c14
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel.c b/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel.c
index 3ca42d0..0327e2b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_intel.c
@@ -147,12 +147,6 @@ static int collect_cpu_info(int cpu_num, struct cpu_signature *csig)
memset(csig, 0, sizeof(*csig));
- if (c->x86_vendor != X86_VENDOR_INTEL || c->x86 < 6 ||
- cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_IA64)) {
- pr_err("CPU%d not a capable Intel processor\n", cpu_num);
- return -1;
- }
-
csig->sig = cpuid_eax(0x00000001);
if ((c->x86_model >= 5) || (c->x86 > 6)) {
@@ -463,6 +457,14 @@ static struct microcode_ops microcode_intel_ops = {
struct microcode_ops * __init init_intel_microcode(void)
{
+ struct cpuinfo_x86 *c = &cpu_data(0);
+
+ if (c->x86_vendor != X86_VENDOR_INTEL || c->x86 < 6 ||
+ cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_IA64)) {
+ pr_err("Intel CPU family 0x%x not supported\n", c->x86);
+ return NULL;
+ }
+
return &microcode_intel_ops;
}