Re: [Test-Announce] Re: Call for testing: updates to address today's CPU/kernel vulnerability

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Hi Stan,

On my test-systems the westermere-based laptop (Cire-i5 first gen) is
correctly marked as insecure, while the AMD 7650k Kaveri (Steamroller
based) desktop PC is not.

Best regards, Clemens

2018-01-04 2:06 GMT+01:00 stan <stanl-fedorauser@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Wed, 03 Jan 2018 16:39:34 -0800
> Adam Williamson <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 2018-01-03 at 15:02 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
>> > Hi folks!
>> >
>> > So you might have read some stories today about an issue that's
>> > being described as a design flaw in some CPUs which makes it
>> > possible for unprivileged users on an affected system to read from
>> > privileged memory locations.
>>
>> Update: both updates now have sufficient karma to go stable. Thanks to
>> all testers.
>>
>> Please do carry on testing the kernel and report any problems you come
>> across, thanks!
>>
>> If any further fixes require priority testing later, we will send out
>> more requests.
>
> It turns out that AMD processors are not affected by this problem.
> Does the Fedora kernel implement the patch for the kernel that
> bypasses the fix for AMD processors?
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