On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 12:07:22AM +0200, Maciej S. Szmigiero wrote: > Currently, the code scanning a CPU equivalence table read from a microcode > container file assumes that it actually contains a terminating zero entry, > but if does not then the code will continue the scan past its valid data. > > For the late loader this can be improved by always appending a terminating > zero entry to such table when loading it. > This way we don't need an extra global variable for holding the table size > and we don't have to reject such incomplete tables (for backward > compatibility with the existing code which didn't do so). > > For the early loader, since we can't allocate memory and have to work > in-place, let's pass an explicit size of this table to its scanning > functions so they will know when to stop.
I don't like the difference between early and late here. Just pass explicit size to the late loader too. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply. --