[MODERATED] Re: The Annnoying Affair has No eXcuses - Bulletin #4

Ben Hutchings <[email protected]> Sat, 09 Nov 2019 23:57:57 +0000

Newsgroups	org.kernel.lore.historical-speck
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On Sat, 2019-11-09 at 22:39 +0000, speck for Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Thu, 2019-11-07 at 21:17 +0100, speck for Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > Folks,
> > 
> > I've picked up Paolos backports and updated the stable branches
> > linux-5.3.y, linux-4.19.y and linix-4.14.y, which also have been rebased to
> > the latest stable versions.
> > 
> > The changes are available as usual from:
> > 
> >   cvs.ou.linutronix.de:linux/speck/linux  
> > 
> > Git bundles for the linux-5.3.y, linux-4.19.y and linix-4.14.y branches
> > against their upstream versions are attached.
> 
> Here's my backport to 4.9.  I've tested the NX fixes for a while, but
> don't have any hardware to test the TAA fixes on.

And a backport to 4.4.  For NX, the bug is enumerated but *not* fixed -
since 4.4 didn't get the mitigation for L1TF in KVM, untrusted KVM
guests are already unsupported.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
                                                      - Albert Einstein

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