From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.skyhub.de (mail.skyhub.de [5.9.137.197]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B84F479E1 for ; Thu, 3 Nov 2022 23:32:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zn.tnic (p200300ea9733e72b329c23fffea6a903.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [IPv6:2003:ea:9733:e72b:329c:23ff:fea6:a903]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.skyhub.de (SuperMail on ZX Spectrum 128k) with ESMTPSA id 8BD561EC04E2; Fri, 4 Nov 2022 00:32:03 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=alien8.de; s=dkim; t=1667518323; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to:in-reply-to: references:references; bh=eVWe2dv0SREgTL0EatF2jCJmMTOM/UpbhdkTrzmlVEE=; b=CzItbvwL6ts3qGFTw2UTW8TnFYrTv4FduqBZaxs7lqIYrAe9hPRnopXl39HovJa1VvLOmD QM6eU+EKhB8OZFw2RM6g369rOUSZarnToyR/f1AwDyHXgeO3O0QH5i7bT9XEoFcnykamCj 71L2ciDo0mbh69pu/fbucmiMGz+4SZw= Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2022 00:32:03 +0100 From: Borislav Petkov To: Ashok Raj Cc: Jithu Joseph , hdegoede@redhat.com, markgross@kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, dave.hansen@linux.intel.com, x86@kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, tony.luck@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org, patches@lists.linux.dev, ravi.v.shankar@intel.com, thiago.macieira@intel.com, athenas.jimenez.gonzalez@intel.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/14] x86/microcode/intel: Expose microcode_sanity_check() Message-ID: References: <20221021203413.1220137-1-jithu.joseph@intel.com> <20221021203413.1220137-8-jithu.joseph@intel.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: patches@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: On Thu, Nov 03, 2022 at 12:25:32PM -0700, Ashok Raj wrote: > CPU microcode has stayed the same for over 15 years roughly. Changing > formats isn't something that's done lightly especially since there is cost > of enabling in all OS's. Yeah, because it has been that way for the last 15 years and that means it'll not change in the future either. Yeah, right. > Even if its only a few hundred lines of code, it seems odd to simply > duplicate for the sake of fear of testing. I don't think I ever said "fear" but rather that it would be real hard to test. But it's not like you're reading my mails properly. But don't worry about it. We'll change the microcode loader and if we break the IFS thing in the process, then, oh well, sh*t happens. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette