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Re: Question on CVE-2017-5754 on Debian 8.9

From Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz>
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Subject Re: Question on CVE-2017-5754 on Debian 8.9
Date 2018-01-24 00:00 +0100
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On 24/01/18 11:27, Michael Fothergill wrote:
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>     ​Hi there,  I am running kernel 4.14.14 under gentoo testing on an
>     AMD kaveri box.
> 
>     The version of GCC I am using is 7.2.  Whether that means the
>     reptoline patch is working for me I am not quite sure but it could
>     be I guess.....
> 
>     Someone who is smarter than the average bear has written a patch for
>     the spectre problem with no performance penalty:
> 
>     https://www.neowin.net/news/retpoline-patch-coming-to-linux-49-and-linux-414
>     <https://www.neowin.net/news/retpoline-patch-coming-to-linux-49-and-linux-414>
> 
>     ​I am not sure if you can do this as debian testing or experimental.
> 
>     Cheers
> 
>     Michael Fothergill
> 
> 
> ​You can compile the kernel in debian:​
> 
>     ​https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/i386/ch08s06.html.en
> 
> 
> ​There is also a debian page on gcc7
> ​
> https://wiki.debian.org/GCC7
> 
> ​If I ask the gentoo folks they will tell me if the KPTI and retpoline
> patches are turned on automatically in kernel 4.14.14
> or if you have to set a specific flag when you run make menuconfig (runs
> in Debian too); then if GCC7 is new enough for this
> you are good to go......

The neowin link above has a link to a Phoronix article[1], which
suggests you need GCC 8.0, or maybe 7.3 if a backport succeeds. That was
9 days ago, of course ... Stretch only has 6.3, and even sid only has
7.2, so I don't see it hitting debian soon.

Richard

[1]
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-4.9-4.14-Retpoline

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