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Commit d23d33ea authored by Borislav Petkov's avatar Borislav Petkov Committed by Thomas Gleixner
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x86/microcode: Taint and warn on late loading



Warn before it is attempted and taint the kernel. Late loading microcode
can lead to malfunction of the kernel when the microcode update changes
behaviour. There is no way for the kernel to determine whether its safe or
not.

Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220525161232.14924-4-bp@alien8.de
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