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Commit 518e7b94 authored by Wanpeng Li's avatar Wanpeng Li Committed by Radim Krčmář
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KVM: X86: Allow userspace to define the microcode version



Linux (among the others) has checks to make sure that certain features
aren't enabled on a certain family/model/stepping if the microcode version
isn't greater than or equal to a known good version.

By exposing the real microcode version, we're preventing buggy guests that
don't check that they are running virtualized (i.e., they should trust the
hypervisor) from disabling features that are effectively not buggy.

Suggested-by: default avatarFilippo Sironi <sironi@amazon.de>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>
Cc: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarWanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRadim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
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