Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Sep 2014 14:10:07 +0200 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: x86, microcode: BUG: microcode update that changes x86_capability |
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On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 08:36:45AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > This isn't an useless fix, it will allow systems without early initramfs > support to operate correctly after a microcode update.
So what do we do if we update the microcode late and some userspace task is using HLE and all of a sudden it segfaults and gets killed due to #UD. I'll forward all those complaint emails to you then, no?
:-)
What's saying is, a reboot in this case is maybe the lesser of two evils.
-- Regards/Gruss, Boris. --
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