Re: [PATCH] x86/microcode: Be more verbose, especially about loading errors

[Borislav Petkov]

On Wed, Dec 06, 2023 at 06:28:44PM +0100, Jann Horn wrote:
> The AMD ucode loader contains several checks for corrupted ucode blobs that
> only log with pr_debug(); make them pr_err(), corrupted ucode blobs are
> bad.
> 
> Also make both microcode loaders a bit more verbose about whether they
> found ucode blobs at all and whether they found ucode for the specific CPU.

So far, so good.

The only thing I'm missing here is the *why*.

There's merit in not complaining about corrupted microcode blobs because
they won't be loaded anyway: no harm, no foul.

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