Re: [PATCH v5 4/6] x86/microcode/AMD: Check microcode container data in the late loader

Borislav Petkov
2018-05-03T10:02:02Z

On Wed, May 02, 2018 at 02:47:39AM +0200, Maciej S. Szmigiero wrote:
> On 01.05.2018 22:03, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > 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?
>
> The old code returned this value as a signed int, but then any
> "patch_size" value (which is u32) above INT_MAX read from a section header
> wrapped around to a negative pseudo-error code (which likely didn't match
> any actual error number).

Lemme repeat my question: *where* *exactly* in the old code do we do that?

Feel free to paste snippets to show what you mean.

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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