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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Vulnerability info in /sys
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 19:29:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <p61rfe$6lc$1@blaine.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4d70d8f7-2670-4e2a-e302-2e9b901f2611@gmail.com>

On 14/02/18 04:38, Daniel Frey wrote:
> On 02/12/18 19:39, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
>> On 2018-02-12 19:24, Daniel Frey wrote:
>>
>>> I've read online that there should be vulnerability info (Meltdown,
>>> Spectre) in /sys under /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities but this
>>> doesn't exist on my PC.
>>> [...]
>>
>> See the other threads: you need at least 4.9.79 for the /sys bits.
>> [...]
> 
> I'm surprised I missed those threads, I read all messages on here.
> According to the thread I found it's actually starts on 4.9.77, I'm just
> on the latest stable (.76).

During "special emergencies" like this one, it would be a good idea to 
use the latest 4.9.x, regardless of whether portage marked it "stable" 
or not. At least for a while and until the situation has settled down again.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-02-14 17:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-13  3:24 [gentoo-user] Vulnerability info in /sys Daniel Frey
2018-02-13  3:39 ` [gentoo-user] " Ian Zimmerman
2018-02-14  2:38   ` Daniel Frey
2018-02-14  3:19     ` Ian Zimmerman
2018-02-14 17:29     ` Nikos Chantziaras [this message]
2018-02-15  0:57       ` Daniel Frey
2018-02-15  1:22         ` Nikos Chantziaras

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