Re: [PATCH -v2] x86, microcode, AMD: Sanity-check initrd image

[Boris Ostrovsky]

On 02/03/2014 02:30 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 02:13:27PM -0500, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> > I thought that it may be sufficient to check for !container in
> > save_microcode_in_initrd_amd() before performing relocation. If the
> > signature was wrong, we would have found out about it in
> > load_ucode_bsp() -> apply_ucode_in_initrd() and returned right away,
> Your original test case which exploded had exactly that scenario - it
> was pointing to Intel ucode so container wasn't NULL. Thus we need to
> check the sig in find_ucode_in_initrd().

It exploded when 'if (!container)' check was done *after* relocation, 
which made container non-zero. If you do the check *before* then I think 
you will catch the fact that container is empty.

load_ucode_bsp() -> apply_ucode_in_initrd() path does not include 
save_microcode_in_initrd_amd() and (if I understand the code correctly) 
we already verify signature in apply_ucode_in_initrd().

I am pretty sure I tested this scenario but I can verify it again.

-boris
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