Re: [PATCH 5/8] x86, microcode, intel: don't use fields from unknown format header

[Borislav Petkov]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 10:30:59AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> We care about ->hdrver to get data from the header. We only care about
> ->ldrver for the exact procedure to install it in the processor.

Does it matter?

microcode_sanity_check() errors out if any of the two are not 1 and we
end up not applying the microcode if so.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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