Re: [LEDE-DEV] Spectre vulnerability & LEDE 17.01 release

2018-03-04 Thread Rosen Penev
On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 6:36 AM, Hauke Mehrtens wrote: > On 02/27/2018 11:37 AM, Rafał Miłecki wrote: >> There has been some talk on upcoming 17.01 fix release and Meltdown/Spectre. >> >> Quick summary: >> 1) Most of LEDE supported devices aren't affected >> 2) For most LEDE use cases these vulnera

Re: [LEDE-DEV] Spectre vulnerability & LEDE 17.01 release

2018-03-04 Thread Hauke Mehrtens
On 02/27/2018 11:37 AM, Rafał Miłecki wrote: > There has been some talk on upcoming 17.01 fix release and Meltdown/Spectre. > > Quick summary: > 1) Most of LEDE supported devices aren't affected > 2) For most LEDE use cases these vulnerabilities don't matter > 3) 17.01 uses 4.4.116 which includes

Re: [LEDE-DEV] Spectre vulnerability & LEDE 17.01 release

2018-02-27 Thread Florian Fainelli
On 02/27/2018 02:37 AM, Rafał Miłecki wrote: > There has been some talk on upcoming 17.01 fix release and Meltdown/Spectre. > > Quick summary: > 1) Most of LEDE supported devices aren't affected > 2) For most LEDE use cases these vulnerabilities don't matter > 3) 17.01 uses 4.4.116 which include

Re: [LEDE-DEV] Spectre vulnerability & LEDE 17.01 release

2018-02-27 Thread Rafał Miłecki
On 27 February 2018 at 11:37, Rafał Miłecki wrote: > There has been some talk on upcoming 17.01 fix release and Meltdown/Spectre. You may also want to check/read discussion in Zoltan's patch e-mail thread: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/cover/862581/ ___

[LEDE-DEV] Spectre vulnerability & LEDE 17.01 release

2018-02-27 Thread Rafał Miłecki
There has been some talk on upcoming 17.01 fix release and Meltdown/Spectre. Quick summary: 1) Most of LEDE supported devices aren't affected 2) For most LEDE use cases these vulnerabilities don't matter 3) 17.01 uses 4.4.116 which includes Meltdown fixes 4) Spectre mitigation requires newer GCC a