On 03/04/2018 01:31 PM, valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
Note that saying "The CPU isn't vulnerable to Meltdown/Spectre, therefor the 4.1 kernel is OK" is *incredibly* wrong.
For the record, since 4.1 came out, there's been at *least* a dozen security issues in the Linux kernel that have been a *lot* scarier for security professionals than the Meltdown/Spectre issue. That only got any news coverage because it was an actual hardware design flaw that was believed to be difficult to easily fix with software changes...
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