linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 7/8] x86, microcode, intel: guard against misaligned microcode data

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Date:	Wed, 17 Sep 2014 21:48:41 -0300
From:	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, H Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/8] x86, microcode, intel: guard against misaligned
 microcode data

On Mon, 08 Sep 2014, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> Change the early microcode driver to make a temporary copy of a portion
> of the microcode header, and move the microcode data backwards
> (overwriting the header) to a suitably aligned position, right before
> issuing the microcode update WRMSR.

This one is missing a big thank you to Bill Davidsen for the "overwrite the
header" idea.  Once I get some comments about this series, I will respin
this one and credit him.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh
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