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Re: [stretch] ABI bump for 4.9 with retpoline support?

From Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.kernel
Subject Re: [stretch] ABI bump for 4.9 with retpoline support?
Date 2018-02-18 12:20 +0100
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On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 08:57:42PM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On Sat, 2018-02-17 at 19:51 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > I think we should bump ABI again.
> 
> Thanks for the feedback. I'll do that and remove all the ABI reverts and
> ignores.
> 
> >   We should also do the equivalent of
> > these changes in sid, with s/gcc-7/gcc-6/.
> > 
> >   * [x86] Add versioned build-dependency on gcc-7 for retpoline support
> >   * [x86] linux-compiler-gcc-7-x86: Add versioned dependency on gcc-7 for
> >     retpoline support
> >   * [x86] linux-headers: Depend on updated linux-compiler-gcc-7-x86
> 
> I did the linux-compiler-gcc-6-x86 one but not the other two, Will do as well.
> 
> Should we upload this one through security-master (for the CVE-2017-5715 fix)
> or through stretch-pu again?

I'd say via security.debian.org, to get the CVE-2017-5715 fix out to users.

At this point it seems that for spectre/v1 it will take quite some until all
the affected code paths are identified, so maybe these will rather trickle in
piece by piece now array_index_nospec() has landed.

Cheers,
        Moritz

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[stretch] ABI bump for 4.9 with retpoline support? Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debian.org> - 2018-02-16 12:00 +0100
  Re: [stretch] ABI bump for 4.9 with retpoline support? Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debian.org> - 2018-02-16 18:40 +0100
    Re: [stretch] ABI bump for 4.9 with retpoline support? Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debian.org> - 2018-02-17 21:00 +0100
      Re: [stretch] ABI bump for 4.9 with retpoline support? Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org> - 2018-02-18 12:20 +0100
    Re: [stretch] ABI bump for 4.9 with retpoline support? Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2018-02-17 21:00 +0100

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