Public bug reported:

due to an off-by-one bug in the L1TF patch, the "rare" case of systems still 
vulnerable
is more frequent.

This typically happens on Nehalem+ destop/entry-level server systems
with 32G memory installed.

Originally this was reported in OpenSUSE, but I can confirm this is also
happens with the latest trusty kernel (3.13.0-157-generic)

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/commit/?id=b0a182f875689647b014bc01d36b340217792852

The following patch increases the memory limit for the mitigation on
these systems in general:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/commit/?h=x86/urgent&id=cc51e5428ea54f575d49cfcede1d4cb3a72b4ec4

** Affects: linux (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Description changed:

  due to an off-by-one bug in the L1TF patch, the "rare" case of systems still 
vulnerable
  is more frequent.
  
  This typically happens on Nehalem+ destop/entry-level server systems
  with 32G memory installed.
  
- Originally this was reported in OpenSUSE, but I can confirm this is also 
happens
- with the latest trusty kernel (3.13.0-157-generic)
+ Originally this was reported in OpenSUSE, but I can confirm this is also
+ happens with the latest trusty kernel (3.13.0-157-generic)
  
  
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/commit/?id=b0a182f875689647b014bc01d36b340217792852
  
  The following patch increases the memory limit for the mitigation on
  these systems in general:
  
  
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/commit/?h=x86/urgent&id=cc51e5428ea54f575d49cfcede1d4cb3a72b4ec4

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  off-by-one bug in L1TF mitigation

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