Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86/microcode: vsnprintf() might be unavailable

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Tue Jun 02 2015 - 12:24:20 EST


On Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 05:56:43PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Intel CPUs with x32 kernels we call load_builtin_intel_microcode() from
> head_32.S on quite earlier stage. At that point sprintf() might be out of scope
> to be called.

Hrrm, I don't get that. How can sprintf() be out of scope?

Testing on 32-bit was successful here. How is x32 different?

Thanks.

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