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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86/microcode/AMD: check microcode file sanity before loading it
On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 01:34:45AM +0100, Maciej S. Szmigiero wrote:
> Currently, it is very easy to make the AMD microcode update driver crash
> or spin on a malformed microcode file since it does very little
> consistency checking on data loaded from such file.

Sorry but if one has enough permissions to install malformed microcode,
crashing the loader is the least of your problems. IOW, I don't see the
justification for the unnecessary complication with all those checks.

Thx.

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Boris.

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