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Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 16:28:02 +0200 From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de> To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, H Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/8] x86, microcode, intel: don't use fields from unknown format header On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 10:30:59AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > We care about ->hdrver to get data from the header. We only care about > ->ldrver for the exact procedure to install it in the processor. Does it matter? microcode_sanity_check() errors out if any of the two are not 1 and we end up not applying the microcode if so. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine. -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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