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Message-ID: <20180226094148.GA15539@pd.tnic>
Date:   Mon, 26 Feb 2018 10:41:48 +0100
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: X86: Allow userspace to define the microcode version

On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 03:23:58PM +0800, Wanpeng Li wrote:
> From: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>
> 
> Linux (among the others) has checks to make sure that certain features 
> aren't enabled on a certain family/model/stepping if the microcode version 
> isn't greater than or equal to a known good version.
> 
> By exposing the real microcode version, we're preventing buggy guests that

Where do we prevent userspace from coming up with some non-sensical
microcode revision?

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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