Re: [PATCH] arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel: don't store initrd's start

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Mon Jul 25 2016 - 09:45:48 EST


On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 02:59:43PM +0200, Nicolai Stange wrote:
> Applied on top of next-20160722 and it boots

Does it apply the microcode too? Or your box doesn't need microcode?

> Doesn't this break the builtin-ucode case (!blobs.valid) where
> blobs.start is supposed to be zero?

Good point.

Well, it shouldn't because in the builtin case start should simply
contain the ASLR offset the physmem mapping was moved to and this offset
is exactly where the builtin images should be... Let me poke at it to
see whether I'm seeing things correctly.

Thanks.

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