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Intel Sandy Bridge-E/EN/EP (SNB-EP, family 6, model 45, stepping 7) has issues
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with MDS-related microcode update that may lead to a system hang after
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a microcode update. In order to address this, microcode update
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to the MDS-related revision 0x718 has been disabled, and the previously
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published microcode revision 0x714 is used by default for the OS-driven
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microcode update.
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For the reference, SHA1 checksums of 06-2d-07 microcode files containing
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microcode revisions in question are listed below:
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 * 06-2d-07, revision 0x714: bcf2173cd3dd499c37defbc2533703cfa6ec2430
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 * 06-2d-07, revision 0x718: 837cfebbfc09b911151dfd179082ad99cf87e85d
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Please contact your system vendor for a BIOS/firmware update that contains
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the latest microcode version. For the information regarding microcode versions
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required for mitigating specific side-channel cache attacks, please refer
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to the following knowledge base articles:
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 * CVE-2017-5715 ("Spectre"):
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   https://access.redhat.com/articles/3436091
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 * CVE-2018-3639 ("Speculative Store Bypass"):
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   https://access.redhat.com/articles/3540901
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 * CVE-2018-3620, CVE-2018-3646 ("L1 Terminal Fault Attack"):
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   https://access.redhat.com/articles/3562741
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 * CVE-2018-12130, CVE-2018-12126, CVE-2018-12127, and CVE-2019-11091
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   ("Microarchitectural Data Sampling"):
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   https://access.redhat.com/articles/4138151
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The information regarding enforcing microcode load is provided below.
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To enforce usage of this microcode revision, please create a file
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"force-intel-06-2d-07" inside /lib/firmware/<kernel_version> directory,
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run "/usr/libexec/microcode_ctl/update_ucode" to add it to firmware
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directory where microcode will be available for late microcode update,
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and run "dracut -f --kver 3.10.0-862.9.1", so initramfs for this version
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is regenerated and the microcode can be loaded early:
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    touch /lib/firmware/3.10.0-862.9.1/force-intel-06-2d-07
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    /usr/libexec/microcode_ctl/update_ucode
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    dracut -f --kver 3.10.0-862.9.1
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After that, it is possible to perform a late microcode update by executing
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"/usr/libexec/microcode_ctl/reload_microcode" or by writing value "1" to
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"/sys/devices/system/cpu/microcode/reload" directly.
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To enforce addition of this microcode for all kernels, please create a file
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"/etc/microcode_ctl/ucode_with_caveats/force-intel-06-2d-07", run
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"/usr/libexec/microcode_ctl/update_ucode" for enabling late microcode updates,
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and "dracut -f --regenerate-all" for enabling early microcode updates:
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    mkdir -p /etc/microcode_ctl/ucode_with_caveats
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    touch /etc/microcode_ctl/ucode_with_caveats/force-intel-06-2d-07
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    /usr/libexec/microcode_ctl/update_ucode
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    dracut -f --regenerate-all
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Please refer to /usr/share/doc/microcode_ctl/README.caveats for additional
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information.