From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, H Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] x86, microcode, intel: forbid some incorrect metadata
Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2014 23:13:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141005211304.GA12003@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141005193703.GB24081@khazad-dum.debian.net>
On Sun, Oct 05, 2014 at 04:37:03PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> Not realy, because it got you confused! :-)
No, it didn't get me confused - it got you confused that I'm confused.
You need to read the comment as a *whole*. The zero value is special
because it is *used* to *denote* a failure. You can use any other
invalid revision value for that matter.
Maybe "denote" was not precise enough - maybe it should say "0 is an
invalid microcode revision and is used to detect the failure of a
microcode update" or similar. Yeah, "detect" sounds better.
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-05 21:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-08 17:37 [PATCH 0/8] x86, microcode, intel: fixes and enhancements Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-09-08 17:37 ` [PATCH 1/8] x86, microcode, intel: forbid some incorrect metadata Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-10-05 17:34 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-10-05 19:37 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-10-05 21:13 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2014-10-05 21:49 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-10-06 5:15 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-09-08 17:37 ` [PATCH 2/8] x86, microcode, intel: don't update each HT core twice Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-10-20 13:32 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-10-20 18:24 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-10-28 17:31 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-10-31 18:43 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-11-01 11:06 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-11-01 19:20 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-11-04 15:53 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-09-08 17:37 ` [PATCH 3/8] x86, microcode, intel: clarify log messages Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-10-20 13:52 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-10-21 14:13 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-10-29 9:54 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-10-31 20:08 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-11-07 17:37 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-09-08 17:37 ` [PATCH 4/8] x86, microcode, intel: add error logging to early update driver Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-10-20 15:08 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-10-21 14:10 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-10-30 17:41 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-10-30 18:15 ` Joe Perches
2014-10-31 20:10 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-09-08 17:37 ` [PATCH 5/8] x86, microcode, intel: don't check extsig entry checksum Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-10-30 20:25 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-10-31 17:14 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-11-07 17:49 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-09-08 17:37 ` [PATCH 6/8] x86, microcode, intel: use cpuid explicitly instead of sync_core Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-11-07 17:56 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-11-07 18:40 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-11-07 19:48 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-09-08 17:37 ` [PATCH 7/8] x86, microcode, intel: guard against misaligned microcode data Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-09-18 0:48 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-11-07 19:59 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-11-07 22:54 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-11-07 23:48 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-11-08 21:57 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-11-11 10:47 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-11-11 16:57 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-11-11 17:13 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-11-11 19:54 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-11-12 12:31 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-11-13 0:18 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-11-13 11:53 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-11-15 23:10 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-11-24 17:35 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-11-25 13:29 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-09-08 17:37 ` [PATCH 8/8] x86, microcode, intel: defend apply_microcode_intel with BUG_ON Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-11-07 20:05 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-11-07 22:56 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-11-07 23:48 ` Borislav Petkov
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