Bug 1774322

Summary:	[RHEL 8] Do not update SKL-SP/W/X (CPUID 0x50654, 06-55-04) to revision 0x2000065 by default
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Reporter:	Eugene Syromiatnikov <esyr>
Component:	microcode_ctl	Assignee:	Eugene Syromiatnikov <esyr>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Jeff Bastian <jbastian>
Severity:	unspecified	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	8.2	CC:	efuller, laurent.rineau__fedora, skozina
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	8.0
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Last Closed:	2020-04-28 16:06:21 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Bug Blocks:	1710951, 1774329, 1774635

Description Eugene Syromiatnikov 2019-11-20 02:45:55 UTC

There are reports of issues following update to revision 0x2000065 of 06-55-04 microcode:

https://github.com/intel/Intel-Linux-Processor-Microcode-Data-Files/issues/21

Since, per [1], this revision is not required for recently unembargoed Intel CPU vulnerabilities and errata, it may be wise to disable update to it by default, the same way it has been done for SNB-EP (06-2d-07) microcode revision 0x718.

[1] https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/corporate-information/SA00270-microcode-update-guidance.pdf

Comment 4 Jeff Bastian 2020-03-04 17:57:39 UTC

Verified with microcode_ctl-20191115-4.el8

Reinstalling the rpm leaves a note in the dmesg logs, and the microcode update is restricted to the previous version 0x2000064.  The "force" file to override the blacklist still works.


[root@lenovo-sr650-01 ~]# yum -y reinstall microcode_ctl-20191115-4.el8
...

[root@lenovo-sr650-01 ~]# dmesg
[ 3839.859747] Microcode revision 0x2000065 for Intel Skylake-SP/X/W (family 6, model 85,
               stepping 4; CPUID 0x50654) CPUs that has been included into microcode-20191112
               release is disabled as it may cause system instability and the previous revision
               0x2000064 is used instead.
               Please refer to /usr/share/doc/microcode_ctl/caveats/06-55-04_readme
               and /usr/share/doc/microcode_ctl/README.caveats for details.

[root@lenovo-sr650-01 ~]# journalctl -b0 --no-hostname -o short-monotonic | grep -i microcode.update
[    0.000000] kernel: microcode: microcode updated early to revision 0x2000064, date = 2019-07-31
[    7.517347] kernel: microcode: Microcode Update Driver: v2.2.
[   15.481153] systemd[1]: Starting Load CPU microcode update...
[   15.574369] systemd[1]: Started Load CPU microcode update.

[root@lenovo-sr650-01 ~]# cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/microcode/version
0x2000064


### Force the microcode update ###

[root@lenovo-sr650-01 ~]# install -D /dev/null /etc/microcode_ctl/ucode_with_caveats/force-intel-06-55-04

[root@lenovo-sr650-01 ~]# /usr/libexec/microcode_ctl/update_ucode

[root@lenovo-sr650-01 ~]# dracut --verbose --force --early-microcode

[root@lenovo-sr650-01 ~]# lsinitrd /boot/initramfs-4.18.0-184.el8.x86_64.img | head
Image: /boot/initramfs-4.18.0-184.el8.x86_64.img: 27M
========================================================================
Early CPIO image
========================================================================
drwxr-xr-x   3 root     root            0 Feb 11 10:30 .
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root            2 Feb 11 10:30 early_cpio
drwxr-xr-x   3 root     root            0 Feb 11 10:30 kernel
drwxr-xr-x   3 root     root            0 Feb 11 10:30 kernel/x86
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root            0 Feb 11 10:30 kernel/x86/microcode
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root        34816 Feb 11 10:30 kernel/x86/microcode/GenuineIntel.bin

[root@lenovo-sr650-01 ~]# reboot
...

[root@lenovo-sr650-01 ~]# journalctl -b0 --no-hostname -o short-monotonic | grep -i microcode.update
[    0.000000] kernel: microcode: microcode updated early to revision 0x2000065, date = 2019-09-05
[    7.540957] kernel: microcode: Microcode Update Driver: v2.2.
[   15.848569] systemd[1]: Starting Load CPU microcode update...
[   15.962939] systemd[1]: Started Load CPU microcode update.

[root@lenovo-sr650-01 ~]# cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/microcode/version
0x2000065

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2020-04-28 16:06:21 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2020:1761