Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 May 2022 18:00:58 +0200 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] x86/microcode: Taint and warn on late loading |
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On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 03:40:50PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote: > That's very 1990's thinking. We have Unicode available now. > We could start using Emoji like U+1F4A9 as a taint character :-)
LOL: U+1F4A9 PILE OF POO. Some fancy terminals might even show it properly.
And sounds about the right one in this case.
> That sounds better than a string of Emoji (also better than the > current string of upper case characters).
Yeah, we need to think about it. I would be lying if I said I had never wondered before where a taint flag got set. Saving the address has a problem when multiple times the same flag gets set - only the last address will be there.
But I guess we can try it.
/me puts on todo.
-- Regards/Gruss, Boris.
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