On 10.03.2018 14:12, Borislav Petkov wrote: > 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. >
So, shall we remove data consistency checks of various root-only syscalls then? :) Maciej
