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SubjectRe: 4.15.17 regression: bisected: timeout during microcode update
On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 12:48:29PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 07:35:31AM +0200, Vitezslav Samel wrote:
> > > - Can you remove your builtin microcode,
> > > - rename the /lib/firmware/intel-ucode so we don't find it during late loading.
> > > - let the system boot completely
> > > - then rename the intel-ucode back for this test.
> > > - write 1 to reload and see if that update succeeds or fails?
> >
> > Just tested, it fails.
>
> Can you apply the below patch, do the exact same exercise and catch the
> output? Over serial console or netconsole or if nothing else, do a video
> of the screen with a phone and upload it somewhere?

Here it is:
-------------------------------------------------------------
microcode: __reload_late: CPU1
microcode: __reload_late: CPU3
microcode: __reload_late: CPU2
microcode: __reload_late: CPU0
microcode: __reload_late: CPU1 reloading
microcode: __reload_late: CPU3 reloading
microcode: __reload_late: CPU2 reloading
microcode: __reload_late: CPU0 reloading
microcode: __reload_late: CPU3 returning 0x0
microcode: __reload_late: CPU2 returning 0x0
microcode: updated to revision 0x24, date = 2018-01-21
microcode: __reload_late: CPU0 waiting to exit
microcode: __reload_late: CPU1 returning 0x0
microcode: Timeout while waiting for CPUs rendezvous, remaining: 3
Kernel panic - not syncing: Timeout during microcode update!

CPU: 0 PID: 11 Comm: migration/0 Not tainted 4.16.3+ #1
Hardware name: Supermicro X10SLM-F/X10SLM-F, BIOS 2.2 02/05/2015
Call Trace:
dump_stack+0x46/0x65
panic+0xca/0x208
__reload_late+0x11e/0x120
multi_cpu_stop+0x55/0xa0
? cpu_stop_queue_work+0x80/0x80
cpu_stopper_thread+0x7d/0x100
? sort_range+0x20/0x20
smpboot_thread_fn+0x11f/0x1e0
kthread+0x101/0x120
? __kthread_create_on_node+0x150/0x150
? __kthread_create_on_node+0xf0/0x150
ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40
Shutting down cpus with NMI
Kernel Offset: disabled
---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Timeout during microcode update!
-------------------------------------------------------------

Vita

>
> Thx.
>
> ---
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c
> index 10c4fc2c91f8..374ec1d75d89 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c
> @@ -553,6 +553,8 @@ static int __reload_late(void *info)
> enum ucode_state err;
> int ret = 0;
>
> + pr_info("%s: CPU%d\n", __func__, cpu);
> +
> /*
> * Wait for all CPUs to arrive. A load will not be attempted unless all
> * CPUs show up.
> @@ -560,6 +562,8 @@ static int __reload_late(void *info)
> if (__wait_for_cpus(&late_cpus_in, NSEC_PER_SEC))
> return -1;
>
> + pr_info("%s: CPU%d reloading\n", __func__, cpu);
> +
> spin_lock(&update_lock);
> apply_microcode_local(&err);
> spin_unlock(&update_lock);
> @@ -571,9 +575,12 @@ static int __reload_late(void *info)
> } else if (err == UCODE_UPDATED || err == UCODE_OK) {
> ret = 1;
> } else {
> + pr_info("%s: CPU%d returning 0x%x\n", __func__, cpu, ret);
> return ret;
> }
>
> + pr_info("%s: CPU%d waiting to exit\n", __func__, cpu);
> +
> /*
> * Increase the wait timeout to a safe value here since we're
> * serializing the microcode update and that could take a while on a
>
> --
> Regards/Gruss,
> Boris.
>
> SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg)
> --

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