On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 04:04:11PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > As far as I can tell, Intel has always filled the reserved fields in the > microcode data files with zeros.
Yes, and this is the statement I was looking for. IF(!) this really is the case, then we don't have anything to worry about because new kernel with old container will look at ->datasize, see 0 and return DEFAULT_UCODE_TOTALSIZE and we're fine. I've updated the patch with your additional explanation. Thanks. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine. -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/