On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 10:07:01PM +0100, Maciej S. Szmigiero wrote:
> We should check whether the patch section currently being processed is
> actually a patch section for each of them (not just the first one) in the
> late loader verify_and_add_patch() function, just like the early loader
> already does in parse_container() function.
>
> Signed-off-by: Maciej S. Szmigiero <m...@maciej.szmigiero.name>
> ---
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/amd.c | 11 +++++------
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/amd.c
> b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/amd.c
> index 0f78200f2f6c..3ad23e72c2b0 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/amd.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/amd.c
> @@ -627,6 +627,11 @@ static int verify_and_add_patch(u8 family, u8 *fw,
> size_t leftover)
> if (leftover < SECTION_HDR_SIZE + sizeof(*mc_hdr))
> return leftover;
>
> + if (*(u32 *)fw != UCODE_UCODE_TYPE) {
Store that in a local var patch_type for better readability, while
you're touching that.
Also, for all your patch subject names for your next submission, start
the patch subject sentence with a capital letter:
Subject: [PATCH v3 6/9] x86/microcode/AMD: Verify patch section type for every
such section
Thx.
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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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