Re: [PATCH v5 3/6] x86/microcode/AMD: Check microcode container data in the early loader

Borislav Petkov
2018-05-01T08:44:54Z

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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Boris.

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