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authorBorislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>2009-10-29 14:45:52 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-11-10 05:46:09 +0100
commit506f90eeae682dc96c11c7aefac0262b3a560b49 (patch)
treef151440e5c91bfdf9957941bd94dc8d7b42e0356 /arch
parentde2a47cf2b3f59ef9664b277f4021b91af13598e (diff)
x86, amd-ucode: Check UCODE_MAGIC before loading the container file
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> LKML-Reference: <20091029134552.GC30802@alberich.amd.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c b/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c
index 366baa17991..f4c538b681c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c
@@ -317,6 +317,12 @@ static enum ucode_state request_microcode_fw(int cpu, struct device *device)
return UCODE_NFOUND;
}
+ if (*(u32 *)firmware->data != UCODE_MAGIC) {
+ printk(KERN_ERR "microcode: invalid UCODE_MAGIC (0x%08x)\n",
+ *(u32 *)firmware->data);
+ return UCODE_ERROR;
+ }
+
ret = generic_load_microcode(cpu, firmware->data, firmware->size);
release_firmware(firmware);