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Date: Tue, 1 May 2018 10:44:34 +0200
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: "Maciej S. Szmigiero" <mail@maciej.szmigiero.name>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 3/6] x86/microcode/AMD: Check microcode container data
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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.

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