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.
I can't say anything about that kernel since I always use the most
recent kernel available, currently
4.16.4. I haven't had any problems with bleeding edge gentoo-sources.
AFAIR, only work around for this hardware problems have appeared in
4.14 or 4.15.
I don't know if these have been backported to 4.9.95.
The other fix should be a contained in a recent version
sys-kernel/linux-firmware (I have 20180416).
You might have a look at
http://kroah.com/log/blog/2018/01/06/meltdown-status/
https://vinfrastructure.it/2018/02/using-linux-kernel-4-15-minimize-meltdown-spectre/
https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-4-15-good-news-and-bad-news-about-meltdown-and-spectre/
https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-4-16-arrives-bringing-more-spectre-and-meltdown-fixes/
Helmut
