Re: [PATCH v4 06/10] x86/microcode/AMD: Check patch size in verify_and_add_patch()

[Borislav Petkov]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 12:08:17AM +0100, Maciej S. Szmigiero wrote:
> @@ -505,7 +505,7 @@ static unsigned int verify_patch_size(u8 family, u32 patch_size,
>  		break;
>  	}
>  
> -	if (patch_size > min_t(u32, size, max_size)) {
> +	if (patch_size > min_t(size_t, size, max_size)) {

So I don't like this conversion to 8-byte-width size_t's. It is not
necessary. I'm pretty sure we can do fine with signed and unsigned ints.

For example, you can convert the size to signed int (if it hasn't been
converted yet) and check for < 0 and stop further processing. And so on...

Thx.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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