Re: Re: Bug#888263: Spectre : release kernel 4.9.77 to stretch before p-u

From	Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.kernel
Subject	Re: Re: Bug#888263: Spectre : release kernel 4.9.77 to stretch before p-u
Date	2018-02-09 14:10 +0100
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On Fri, 2018-02-09 at 14:00 +0100, Julien Aubin wrote:
> I guess the kernel will be rebuilt due to the ARM64 breakage

Yes, I'll push a -2 with ABI change ignored on arm64.
>
>  but I confirm it works fine on the following machines :
> Intel Core i7 4790 w/ GeForce GTX 1070 and NVidia BLOB 384.111
> Intel Core i7 4800 MQ 
> Intel Pentium N3700
> AMD Phenom x4 9840 w/ GeForce GTX 970 and NVidia BLOB 384.111

Thanks for the report.
> 
> However it seems that  the updated kernel does not fix against variant 1 and
> 2 of Spectre. :'(

Yes indeed. Retpoline is included in the kernel but there is not gcc support
yet. And IBRS/IBPB is not there yet, nor the microcodes updates.

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis

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