From: Ashok Raj ashok.raj@intel.com
commit be1b670f61443aa5d0d01782e9b8ea0ee825d018 upstream.
The retries in load_ucode_intel_ap() were in place to support systems with mixed steppings. Mixed steppings are no longer supported and there is only one microcode image at a time. Any retries will simply reattempt to apply the same image over and over without making progress.
[ bp: Zap the circumstantial reasoning from the commit message. ]
Fixes: 06b8534cb728 ("x86/microcode: Rework microcode loading") Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj ashok.raj@intel.com Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) bp@alien8.de Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221129210832.107850-3-ashok.raj@intel.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c | 8 +------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c @@ -621,7 +621,6 @@ void load_ucode_intel_ap(void) else iup = &intel_ucode_patch;
-reget: if (!*iup) { patch = __load_ucode_intel(&uci); if (!patch) @@ -632,12 +631,7 @@ reget:
uci.mc = *iup;
- if (apply_microcode_early(&uci, true)) { - /* Mixed-silicon system? Try to refetch the proper patch: */ - *iup = NULL; - - goto reget; - } + apply_microcode_early(&uci, true); }
static struct microcode_intel *find_patch(struct ucode_cpu_info *uci)