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Re: Nvidia drivers

From floris <jkfloris@dds.nl>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Nvidia drivers
Date 2018-07-06 16:20 +0200
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Matthew Crews schreef op 2018-07-06 13:55:
> On 07/06/2018 01:55 AM, Darac Marjal wrote:
> 
>> Actually, as of version 390.67-2, that's no longer needed. Quoting 
>> [1]:
>> 
>> 	nvidia-graphics-drivers (390.67-2) unstable; urgency=high
>> 
>> 	  * Add kmem_cache_create_usercopy.patch from Red Hat, fixing "Bad or 
>> missing
>> 		usercopy whitelist? Kernel memory exposure attempt detected from 
>> SLUB
>> 		object 'nvidia_stack_cache'" on Linux kernels that have disabled
>> 		CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY_FALLBACK (i.e. linux-image-4.16.0-2-* or 
>> newer).
>> 		(Closes: #901919)
>> 
>> 	 -- Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org>  Thu, 05 Jul 2018 02:01:31 
>> +0200
>> 
>> [1] 
>> http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/non-free/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers/nvidia-graphics-drivers_390.67-2_changelog
>> 
> 
> Thats good to know.
> 
> Unfortunately, Stretch-backports and Buster Nvidia-drivers are not in
> sync with Sid right now. So this is still a necessary workaround for
> Stretch-backports and Buster users.


and there is a new bug:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=903121

So be careful if you use the nvidia module.

---
Floris

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Nvidia drivers Francisco Mariano-Neto <fmneto@gmail.com> - 2018-07-06 00:50 +0200
  Re: Nvidia drivers Matthew Crews <mailinglists@mattcrews.com> - 2018-07-06 01:40 +0200
  Re: Nvidia drivers Mark Allums <mark@allums.email> - 2018-07-06 03:20 +0200
    Re: Nvidia drivers Mark Allums <mark@allums.email> - 2018-07-06 03:30 +0200
    Re: Nvidia drivers Matthew Crews <mattcrews@mattcrews.com> - 2018-07-06 05:00 +0200
      Re: Nvidia drivers David Baron <dbaron770@gmail.com> - 2018-07-06 08:10 +0200
    Re: Nvidia drivers Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2018-07-06 11:00 +0200
      Re: Nvidia drivers Francisco M Neto <fmneto@gmail.com> - 2018-07-06 12:20 +0200
        Re: Nvidia drivers Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2018-07-06 12:50 +0200
          Re: Nvidia drivers floris <jkfloris@dds.nl> - 2018-07-06 16:10 +0200
            Re: Nvidia drivers Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2018-07-06 16:50 +0200
          Re: Nvidia drivers Francisco Mariano-Neto <fmneto@gmail.com> - 2018-07-07 11:50 +0200
            Re: Nvidia drivers Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2018-07-07 13:10 +0200
      Re: Nvidia drivers Matthew Crews <mattcrews@mattcrews.com> - 2018-07-06 14:20 +0200
        Re: Nvidia drivers floris <jkfloris@dds.nl> - 2018-07-06 16:20 +0200
          Re: Nvidia drivers Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2018-07-06 17:00 +0200

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