Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] x86/microcode: Taint and warn on late loading

[Borislav Petkov]

On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 03:40:50PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote:
> That's very 1990's thinking. We have Unicode available now.
> We could start using Emoji like U+1F4A9 as a taint character :-)

LOL: U+1F4A9 PILE OF POO. Some fancy terminals might even show it
properly.

And sounds about the right one in this case.

> That sounds better than a string of Emoji (also better than the
> current string of upper case characters).

Yeah, we need to think about it. I would be lying if I said I had never
wondered before where a taint flag got set. Saving the address has a
problem when multiple times the same flag gets set - only the last
address will be there.

But I guess we can try it.

/me puts on todo.

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