On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 05:24:18PM +0000, Michael Fothergill wrote: > On 19 February 2018 at 17:03, Reco <recovery...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 04:40:19PM +0000, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > > I had thought up to now that e.g. kernel 4.15.4-1 was new enough that if > > > you compiled it with gcc 7.3 then the spectre fix would then work. > > > > Not unless you apply the retpoline patch to the gcc. > > > > For instance, just today said patch was applied to the Debian stable > > version of gcc, gcc-4.9: > > > > https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4117 > > > > Reco > > > > Doesn't that mean that if you installed this version of gcc 4.9 and one > of the most recent kernels debian has e.g. 4.15.4-1 above > then it will be able to correct install the microcode or whatever it is > called and you don't need a compiler as new as gcc 7.3? > > If so that is excellent news indeed.
I'm unsure of linux-4.15, but it should be possible to use patched gcc-4.9 to build backported linux-4.14+89. Whenever they applied the second part of retpoline patch to this kernel remains to seen. Being lazy I'll just wait while Debian Kernel Team builds a patched kernel for all of us. Reco
