From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 09:35:01 -0500
Subject: x86/spectre_v2: Don't check microcode versions when running under
 hypervisors
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Git-commit: 36268223c1e9981d6cfc33aff8520b3bde4b8114
Patch-mainline: v4.16-rc5
References: bnc#1068032 bnc#1085823 CVE-2017-5715

As:

 1) It's known that hypervisors lie about the environment anyhow (host
    mismatch)

 2) Even if the hypervisor (Xen, KVM, VMWare, etc) provided a valid
    "correct" value, it all gets to be very murky when migration happens
    (do you provide the "new" microcode of the machine?).

And in reality the cloud vendors are the ones that should make sure that
the microcode that is running is correct and we should just sing lalalala
and trust them.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com>
Cc: kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
CC: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180226213019.GE9497@char.us.oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c |    7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c
@@ -143,6 +143,13 @@ static bool bad_spectre_microcode(struct
 {
 	int i;
 
+	/*
+	 * We know that the hypervisor lie to us on the microcode version so
+	 * we may as well hope that it is running the correct version.
+	 */
+	if (cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_HYPERVISOR))
+		return false;
+
 	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(spectre_bad_microcodes); i++) {
 		if (c->x86_model == spectre_bad_microcodes[i].model &&
 		    c->x86_mask == spectre_bad_microcodes[i].stepping)