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From: Adam Carter <adamcarter3@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 4.9.95
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 10:13:20
Message-Id: CAC=wYCG3jTsCPGVCmZiOu64N4UDxQXPY65BKVF5DX9io9fhpzw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 4.9.95 by John Covici
1 On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 7:57 PM, John Covici <covici@××××××××××.com> wrote:
2
3 > On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 05:52:30 -0400,
4 > Helmut Jarausch wrote:
5 > >
6 > > On 04/25/2018 06:06:32 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
7 > > > As this version of gentoo-sources has now hit the stable
8 > > > mirrors, would anyone
9 > > > like to summarise the position wrt Spectre, Meltdown and
10 > > > anything else that's
11 > > > relevant? Just to help us numbskulls sleep at night.
12 >
13 > As far as I know anything after 4.9.82 has all the fixes for
14 > meltdown/spectra which have been back ported since this is a long term
15 > release -- I am sure 4.9.95 will be even better and I will go to it
16 > myself in the next days.
17 >
18 >
19 Does grep . /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/* find anything?
20
21 For 4.16.3;
22 $ grep . /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/*
23 /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/meltdown:Not affected
24 /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v1:Mitigation: __user
25 pointer sanitization
26 /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v2:Mitigation: Full AMD
27 retpoline

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Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 4.9.95 Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>