Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 10 Mar 2018 10:18:38 +0100 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86/microcode/AMD: check microcode file sanity before loading it |
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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.
-- Regards/Gruss, Boris.
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