From: Smita Koralahalli Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2021 17:27:40 +0000 (-0500) Subject: EDAC/mce_amd: Do not load edac_mce_amd module on guests X-Git-Tag: v5.15-rc1~205^2~4 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=767f4b620edadac579c9b8b6660761d4285fa6f9;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Flinux.git EDAC/mce_amd: Do not load edac_mce_amd module on guests Hypervisors likely do not expose the SMCA feature to the guest and loading this module leads to false warnings. This module should not be loaded in guests to begin with, but people tend to do so, especially when testing kernels in VMs. And then they complain about those false warnings. Do the practical thing and do not load this module when running as a guest to avoid all that complaining. [ bp: Rewrite commit message. ] Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov Signed-off-by: Smita Koralahalli Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov Reviewed-by: Yazen Ghannam Tested-by: Kim Phillips Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210628172740.245689-1-Smita.KoralahalliChannabasappa@amd.com --- diff --git a/drivers/edac/mce_amd.c b/drivers/edac/mce_amd.c index 27d56920b4690..67dbf4c312716 100644 --- a/drivers/edac/mce_amd.c +++ b/drivers/edac/mce_amd.c @@ -1246,6 +1246,9 @@ static int __init mce_amd_init(void) c->x86_vendor != X86_VENDOR_HYGON) return -ENODEV; + if (cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_HYPERVISOR)) + return -ENODEV; + if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_SMCA)) { xec_mask = 0x3f; goto out;