From: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: AMD microcode loading broken on 32 bit
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 16:05:20 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52E81B90.8040604@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140128205246.GL815@pd.tnic>
On 01/28/2014 03:52 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 03:43:57PM -0500, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>> It fixes the case when there is no microcode in initrd but when
>> microcode is corrupted (as was the case when we were pointing to Intel
>> binary) we still die. Neither container nor ucode_cpio.data is NULL in
>> this case.
> How is that possible? Did you generate a path in the cpio by the name of
>
> "kernel/x86/microcode/AuthenticAMD.bin"
>
> but with Intel microcode in it?
>
Yes. This was a bug in our build environment. It is fixed now but I put this
bug back when I was testing your patch.
-boris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-28 21:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2014-01-21 16:14 ` AMD microcode loading broken on 32 bit Borislav Petkov
2014-01-21 17:55 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2014-01-21 18:25 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-23 18:08 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2014-01-23 18:54 ` Gene Heskett
2014-01-23 19:09 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2014-01-23 19:36 ` Gene Heskett
2014-01-23 19:29 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-23 19:41 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2014-01-28 16:24 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-28 20:43 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2014-01-28 20:52 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-28 21:05 ` Boris Ostrovsky [this message]
2014-01-28 21:30 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-28 21:37 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2014-01-28 23:10 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2014-01-28 23:22 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-30 15:13 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-30 19:41 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2014-01-30 19:54 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-02-03 17:55 ` [PATCH -v2] x86, microcode, AMD: Sanity-check initrd image Borislav Petkov
2014-02-03 19:13 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2014-02-03 19:30 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-02-03 19:37 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2014-02-03 19:52 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-02-03 20:28 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2014-02-03 20:33 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-02-03 20:41 ` [PATCH] x86, microcode, AMD: Unify valid container checks Borislav Petkov
2014-02-06 19:39 ` [tip:x86/urgent] " tip-bot for Borislav Petkov
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