Re: [ 36/44] x86, microcode: Sanitize per-cpu microcode reloading interface

2012-08-15 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 01:30:46PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 15 Aug 2012, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 09:26:54PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > I believe the patch bellow, which was required on 3.2, will also be > > > necessary. >

Re: [ 36/44] x86, microcode: Sanitize per-cpu microcode reloading interface

2012-08-15 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 15 Aug 2012, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 09:26:54PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > I believe the patch bellow, which was required on 3.2, will also be > > necessary. > > Will it be necessary to apply this before this patch goes in the series, > or aft

Re: [ 36/44] x86, microcode: Sanitize per-cpu microcode reloading interface

2012-08-15 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 09:26:54PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > I believe the patch bellow, which was required on 3.2, will also be > necessary. Will it be necessary to apply this before this patch goes in the series, or after it? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: [ 36/44] x86, microcode: Sanitize per-cpu microcode reloading interface

2012-08-14 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
I believe the patch bellow, which was required on 3.2, will also be necessary. From: Kevin Winchester Subject: [PATCH] x86: Simplify code by removing a !SMP #ifdefs from 'struct cpuinfo_x86' commit 141168c36cdee3ff23d9c7700b0edc47cb65479f and commit 3f806e50981825fa56a7f1938f24c0680816be45 upst

[ 36/44] x86, microcode: Sanitize per-cpu microcode reloading interface

2012-08-13 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
From: Greg KH 3.0-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Borislav Petkov commit c9fc3f778a6a215ace14ee556067c73982b6d40f upstream. Microcode reloading in a per-core manner is a very bad idea for both major x86 vendors. And the thing i