From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751148AbeEAUDc (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2018 16:03:32 -0400 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([5.9.137.197]:39098 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750785AbeEAUDb (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2018 16:03:31 -0400 Date: Tue, 1 May 2018 22:03:08 +0200 From: Borislav Petkov To: "Maciej S. Szmigiero" Cc: Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 4/6] x86/microcode/AMD: Check microcode container data in the late loader Message-ID: <20180501200308.GC13171@pd.tnic> References: <8f204a953dc4b46477e214ebd291021d7ab6fa6c.1524515406.git.mail@maciej.szmigiero.name> <20180430090527.GC6509@pd.tnic> <20180501084317.GC31863@pd.tnic> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.3 (2018-01-21) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, May 01, 2018 at 06:19:56PM +0200, Maciej S. Szmigiero wrote: > -EINVAL cast to unsigned int is 4294967274 and this value is also > a valid count of bytes to skip that this function can return. And where exactly in the *old* code do we do that? -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Good mailing practices for 400: avoid top-posting and trim the reply.