Re: [LEDE-DEV] [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH 0/5] x86: add support for microcode update

2018-02-09 Thread Hauke Mehrtens
On 02/09/2018 09:46 PM, Philip Prindeville wrote: > > >> On Jan 18, 2018, at 2:15 PM, Hauke Mehrtens wrote: >> >> On 01/18/2018 01:51 PM, Nick Lowe wrote: >>> Does an update to the Kernel, 4.9.77 and 4.14.14 need to be made to >>> properly address this? There are fixes to mitigate Spectre. >> >>

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH 0/5] x86: add support for microcode update

2018-02-09 Thread Philip Prindeville
> On Jan 18, 2018, at 2:15 PM, Hauke Mehrtens wrote: > > On 01/18/2018 01:51 PM, Nick Lowe wrote: >> Does an update to the Kernel, 4.9.77 and 4.14.14 need to be made to >> properly address this? There are fixes to mitigate Spectre. > > We even need a patch for GCC which will be in GCC 8 and 7.

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH 0/5] x86: add support for microcode update

2018-02-02 Thread Nick Lowe
Hi, There's a backport to GCC 5.5 here: https://github.com/hjl-tools/gcc/commits/hjl/indirect/gcc-5-branch/master Cheers, Nick ___ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-dev

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH 0/5] x86: add support for microcode update

2018-01-23 Thread Nick Lowe
Should be resolved in 4.4.113 and 4.9.78 that are now available. Cheers, Nick ___ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-dev

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH 0/5] x86: add support for microcode update

2018-01-21 Thread Nick Lowe
Yup, this affects both 4.4.112 and 4.9.77 A fix for this has been queued by Greg for both 4.4.113 and 4.9.78 It does not affect 4.14.14 Cheers, Nick ___ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/le

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH 0/5] x86: add support for microcode update

2018-01-21 Thread Stijn Segers
Ironically, 4.4.112 is reporting similar behaviour: # grep . /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/* /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/meltdown:Vulnerable /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v1:Vulnerable /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v2:Vulnerable root@PC En

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH 0/5] x86: add support for microcode update

2018-01-21 Thread Nick Lowe
Hi, Thanks! I have done so and this is now queued for 4.9.y and 4.4.y https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git/commit/?id=d28663e54705568523979ab8097b9672ee79b17f https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git/commit/?id=8ea729c00403414d744

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH 0/5] x86: add support for microcode update

2018-01-21 Thread Hauke Mehrtens
On 01/21/2018 01:07 PM, Nick Lowe wrote: > Hi Arjen, > > The point I was making is that we see: > > root@LEDE:/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities# cat meltdown > Vulnerable > > This should not be marked as vulnerable and it is being. > > Cheers, > > Nick > > On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 12:04

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH 0/5] x86: add support for microcode update

2018-01-21 Thread Nick Lowe
Hi Arjen, The point I was making is that we see: root@LEDE:/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities# cat meltdown Vulnerable This should not be marked as vulnerable and it is being. Cheers, Nick On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 12:04 PM, Arjen de Korte wrote: > Citeren Nick Lowe : > > >> Yes, compiler

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH 0/5] x86: add support for microcode update

2018-01-21 Thread Arjen de Korte
Citeren Nick Lowe : Yes, compiler updates will ultimately be necessary to properly close this. We can see for now with 4.9.77: root@LEDE:/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities# cat spectre_v2 Vulnerable: Minimal AMD ASM retpoline AMD processors are also incorrectly being marked as being vuln

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH 0/5] x86: add support for microcode update

2018-01-21 Thread Nick Lowe
Yes, compiler updates will ultimately be necessary to properly close this. We can see for now with 4.9.77: root@LEDE:/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities# cat spectre_v2 Vulnerable: Minimal AMD ASM retpoline AMD processors are also incorrectly being marked as being vulnerable to Meltdown. On

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH 0/5] x86: add support for microcode update

2018-01-21 Thread Zoltan HERPAI
John Crispin wrote: On 17/01/18 20:41, Zoltan HERPAI wrote: Hi, This series will add support for microcode update on x86 targets, in light of the recent security issues. While other distributions use an early initramfs approach to update the microcode as early as possible, in OpenWrt the ear

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH 0/5] x86: add support for microcode update

2018-01-20 Thread Hauke Mehrtens
On 01/18/2018 11:41 PM, Zoltan HERPAI wrote: > > > On Thu, 18 Jan 2018, Hauke Mehrtens wrote: > >> On 01/18/2018 01:51 PM, Nick Lowe wrote: >>> Does an update to the Kernel, 4.9.77 and 4.14.14 need to be made to >>> properly address this? There are fixes to mitigate Spectre. >> >> We even need a

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH 0/5] x86: add support for microcode update

2018-01-18 Thread Zoltan HERPAI
On Thu, 18 Jan 2018, Hauke Mehrtens wrote: On 01/18/2018 01:51 PM, Nick Lowe wrote: Does an update to the Kernel, 4.9.77 and 4.14.14 need to be made to properly address this? There are fixes to mitigate Spectre. We even need a patch for GCC which will be in GCC 8 and 7.3. For master we shou

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH 0/5] x86: add support for microcode update

2018-01-18 Thread Hauke Mehrtens
On 01/18/2018 01:51 PM, Nick Lowe wrote: > Does an update to the Kernel, 4.9.77 and 4.14.14 need to be made to > properly address this? There are fixes to mitigate Spectre. We even need a patch for GCC which will be in GCC 8 and 7.3. For master we should backport it to GCC 5.5, but what do we want

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH 0/5] x86: add support for microcode update

2018-01-18 Thread Nick Lowe
Does an update to the Kernel, 4.9.77 and 4.14.14 need to be made to properly address this? There are fixes to mitigate Spectre. ___ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-dev

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH 0/5] x86: add support for microcode update

2018-01-18 Thread John Crispin
On 17/01/18 20:41, Zoltan HERPAI wrote: Hi, This series will add support for microcode update on x86 targets, in light of the recent security issues. While other distributions use an early initramfs approach to update the microcode as early as possible, in OpenWrt the earliest place where we

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH 0/5] x86: add support for microcode update

2018-01-17 Thread Florian Fainelli
On January 17, 2018 11:41:01 AM PST, Zoltan HERPAI wrote: >Hi, > >This series will add support for microcode update on x86 targets, >in light of the recent security issues. > >While other distributions use an early initramfs approach to update >the microcode as early as possible, in OpenWrt the e