From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 277281382C5 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2018 10:13:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2D540E0871; Thu, 26 Apr 2018 10:13:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ot0-x244.google.com (mail-ot0-x244.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4003:c0f::244]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A2E8EE07A7 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2018 10:13:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ot0-x244.google.com with SMTP id t1-v6so9451416ott.13 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2018 03:13:13 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=U7w/pV5o+2vYDKQJeVNwBdVIEx5HTPiSh7mo4cpaKis=; b=CNCERq1upTIwkJncdckA/shVoq2j19g8pVT1bL0+LowrRJ8H2AqrXS0zn7riKn0yDy 8aJSUYOoxFmshS25v6DFqMDx/HG1Xt/8U87UgaBxjIj3Xt/eglKquc7sCUOegbQXDaZA phb903JphS1M//+gDuisKK9W7//0s99bRJOwKTfvmfsJZZFttYg22Vfrr+6PpflJ7O7T TNRL3aUnO+sZ5i+NlGhLR64Kpja3aQnjamfJcmNfvxNmDq4aaYtArwn4ptl26ECFyfnf dcEW0bjwB20XuVjAMA5h5MNUtrKm1GHQu+o9o59yIRrm1FOK2NlGARKPTnVj/pyoY7s/ bT4A== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to; bh=U7w/pV5o+2vYDKQJeVNwBdVIEx5HTPiSh7mo4cpaKis=; b=jxPKdIL3jd97UGqA5wZYmrXrZIJOVVrRTtjy3h8SOFqO2MUkl7bFLnZAiz+DUG8dgD TMMIMR/9h8nV3afZAwR23wFnbCkPwaT2H9tWlSmeFtqnNRJh3vjTDo9dVYdd6A66MyvA WFEJyUa6356dY74tSsUPPjlp3s20g80KcvhvSstQXSpYGTsKQ0D2hAFlo4vggaC8fE+7 dI/BvaFReu5e/pG7wEsXog6nXRyBltpVjYFH0VSTc6pcXQdlFmijIjm5IrT5hAtiG7R8 HjqiHNn87I2Rs1KmTQV26/Mux5EccECiCY1Q59jA9TLWMVWIRXlXWvHa9lq7poCA+LJs Pugw== X-Gm-Message-State: ALQs6tCFibdOyM1ZGHGThWDXyEsCyyQBhPBonxGPrQK1tXw0cRlY8IoY H1pp2padDT16OTkR6EePb80GBW+Ua8wP2KtlI5alSPc7 X-Google-Smtp-Source: AIpwx49BmFg7cf3fVpfMOB53ofAlkuTukZXo5h3EdIs/oWFj4SYmnE2EH5z/o1Jorfuu1NV3C0keFdLfCE/CmvElNuc= X-Received: by 2002:a9d:7014:: with SMTP id k20-v6mr23216487otj.56.1524737592742; Thu, 26 Apr 2018 03:13:12 -0700 (PDT) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.201.58.27 with HTTP; Thu, 26 Apr 2018 03:13:12 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <1599701.glEH7cqri9@peak> From: Adam Carter Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 20:13:12 +1000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 4.9.95 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="000000000000975b86056abda2de" X-Archives-Salt: 0dd60305-24dc-4600-904f-8a503d23bd5f X-Archives-Hash: cb21cf746370cfde2e2361b7c85e8a27 --000000000000975b86056abda2de Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 7:57 PM, John Covici wrote: > On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 05:52:30 -0400, > Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > > > On 04/25/2018 06:06:32 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > As this version of gentoo-sources has now hit the stable > > > mirrors, would anyone > > > like to summarise the position wrt Spectre, Meltdown and > > > anything else that's > > > relevant? Just to help us numbskulls sleep at night. > > As far as I know anything after 4.9.82 has all the fixes for > meltdown/spectra which have been back ported since this is a long term > release -- I am sure 4.9.95 will be even better and I will go to it > myself in the next days. > > Does grep . /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/* find anything? For 4.16.3; $ grep . /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/* /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/meltdown:Not affected /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v1:Mitigation: __user pointer sanitization /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v2:Mitigation: Full AMD retpoline --000000000000975b86056abda2de Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
On T= hu, Apr 26, 2018 at 7:57 PM, John Covici <covici@ccs.covici.com>= ; wrote:
On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 05:52:30 -0400,
Helmut Jarausch wrote:
>
> On 04/25/2018 06:06:32 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > As this version of gentoo-sources has now hit the stable
> > mirrors, would anyone
> > like to summarise the position wrt Spectre, Meltdown and
> > anything else that's
> > relevant? Just to help us numbskulls sleep at night.

As far as I know anything after 4.9.82 has all the fixes for
meltdown/spectra which have been back ported since this is a long term
release -- I am sure 4.9.95 will be even better and I will go to it
myself in the next days.


Does = grep . /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/* find anything?

For 4.16.3;
$ grep . /sys/devices/system/cp= u/vulnerabilities/*
/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/meltdown:Not= affected
/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v1:Mitigation:= __user pointer sanitization
/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spe= ctre_v2:Mitigation: Full AMD retpoline

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