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Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2018 14:12:02 +0100
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: "Maciej S. Szmigiero" <mail@maciej.szmigiero.name>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/microcode/AMD: check microcode file sanity before
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On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 01:26:00PM +0100, Maciej S. Szmigiero wrote:
> Without them, it is easy to crash the driver when just playing with
> microcode files

You're not supposed to play with the microcode files. If you do and
something breaks, you get to keep the pieces.

If the official microcode files have a problem, then I'm all ears.
Anything else contrived which doesn't actually happen unless someone
manipulates them is not an issue the microcode loader should protect
against.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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