Shaohua,
this one seems appropriate for 2.4 too. It is OK for you if I merge it ?
Thanks,
Willy
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 02:00:25PM -0800, Chris Wright wrote:
> -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
> ------------------
>
> From: Shaohua Li <[email protected]>
>
> IA32 manual says if micorcode update's size is 0, then the size is
> default size (2048 bytes). But this doesn't suggest all microcode
> update's size should be above 2048 bytes to me. We actually had a
> microcode update whose size is 1024 bytes. The patch just removed the
> check.
>
> Backported to 2.6.18 by Daniel Drake.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <[email protected]>
> ---
> arch/i386/kernel/microcode.c | 9 ++-------
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> --- linux-2.6.18.4.orig/arch/i386/kernel/microcode.c
> +++ linux-2.6.18.4/arch/i386/kernel/microcode.c
> @@ -250,14 +250,14 @@ static int find_matching_ucodes (void)
> }
>
> total_size = get_totalsize(&mc_header);
> - if ((cursor + total_size > user_buffer_size) || (total_size < DEFAULT_UCODE_TOTALSIZE)) {
> + if (cursor + total_size > user_buffer_size) {
> printk(KERN_ERR "microcode: error! Bad data in microcode data file\n");
> error = -EINVAL;
> goto out;
> }
>
> data_size = get_datasize(&mc_header);
> - if ((data_size + MC_HEADER_SIZE > total_size) || (data_size < DEFAULT_UCODE_DATASIZE)) {
> + if (data_size + MC_HEADER_SIZE > total_size) {
> printk(KERN_ERR "microcode: error! Bad data in microcode data file\n");
> error = -EINVAL;
> goto out;
> @@ -460,11 +460,6 @@ static ssize_t microcode_write (struct f
> {
> ssize_t ret;
>
> - if (len < DEFAULT_UCODE_TOTALSIZE) {
> - printk(KERN_ERR "microcode: not enough data\n");
> - return -EINVAL;
> - }
> -
> if ((len >> PAGE_SHIFT) > num_physpages) {
> printk(KERN_ERR "microcode: too much data (max %ld pages)\n", num_physpages);
> return -EINVAL;
>
> --
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