stevemoca
commented
7 months ago I am also seeing the same thing, just starting with the recent Debian Stable point release v.12.5. Before that, there was no issue.
According to Debian, Stable release v.12.5 updated needrestart to "Fix microcode check regression on AMD CPUs". Unfortunately, the update seems to have created a new problem on Intel (at least, in my case):
root@san1:~# cat /etc/debian_version
12.5
root@san1:~# needrestart -b
NEEDRESTART-VER: 3.6
NEEDRESTART-KCUR: 6.1.0-18-amd64
NEEDRESTART-KEXP: 6.1.0-18-amd64
NEEDRESTART-KSTA: 1
NEEDRESTART-UCSTA: 1
Use of uninitialized value $ucode_vars{"CURRENT"} in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/sbin/needrestart line 940.
NEEDRESTART-UCCUR:
Use of uninitialized value $ucode_vars{"AVAIL"} in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/sbin/needrestart line 941.
NEEDRESTART-UCEXP:Context: I am running an old, Intel-Xeon-based server:
root@san1:~# lscpu
Architecture: x86_64
CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
Address sizes: 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
Byte Order: Little Endian
CPU(s): 4
On-line CPU(s) list: 0-3
Vendor ID: GenuineIntel
BIOS Vendor ID: Intel
Model name: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31220 @ 3.10GHz
BIOS Model name: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31220 @ 3.10GH To Be Filled By O.E.M. CPU @ 3.1GHz
BIOS CPU family: 179
CPU family: 6
Model: 42
Thread(s) per core: 1
Core(s) per socket: 4
Socket(s): 1
Stepping: 7
CPU(s) scaling MHz: 47%
CPU max MHz: 3400.0000
CPU min MHz: 1600.0000
BogoMIPS: 6185.66
Flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_
tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc cpuid aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr
pdcm pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx lahf_lm pti ssbd ibrs ibpb stibp tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid xsave
opt dtherm ida arat pln pts md_clear flush_l1d
Virtualization features:
Virtualization: VT-x
Caches (sum of all):
L1d: 128 KiB (4 instances)
L1i: 128 KiB (4 instances)
L2: 1 MiB (4 instances)
L3: 8 MiB (1 instance)
NUMA:
NUMA node(s): 1
NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0-3
Vulnerabilities:
Gather data sampling: Not affected
Itlb multihit: KVM: Mitigation: Split huge pages
L1tf: Mitigation; PTE Inversion; VMX conditional cache flushes, SMT disabled
Mds: Mitigation; Clear CPU buffers; SMT disabled
Meltdown: Mitigation; PTI
Mmio stale data: Unknown: No mitigations
Retbleed: Not affected
Spec rstack overflow: Not affected
Spec store bypass: Mitigation; Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
Spectre v1: Mitigation; usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Spectre v2: Mitigation; Retpolines, IBPB conditional, IBRS_FW, STIBP disabled, RSB filling, PBRSB-eIBRS Not affected
Srbds: Not affected
Tsx async abort: Not affected
dugwood
Hi, on a Lenovo x1 Carbon Gen 10 with Debian 12, I get this error :
Context :