linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 3/6] x86/microcode/AMD: Check microcode container data in the early loader

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Date:   Tue, 1 May 2018 10:44:34 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     "Maciej S. Szmigiero" <mail@...iej.szmigiero.name>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 3/6] x86/microcode/AMD: Check microcode container data
 in the early loader

On Tue, May 01, 2018 at 12:27:34AM +0200, Maciej S. Szmigiero wrote:
> If we want to make the parser more resistant to garbage or
> forward-compatible to containers with a different main magic number in
> their headers we probably should return a length of a single byte here
> instead of 12 (CONTAINER_HDR_SZ) so the parser would correctly skip
> unknown data of size which isn't an integer multiple of this number.

Ok.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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