On 03/04/2018 01:31 PM, valdis.kletnieks@xxxxxx 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... By this standard, it is necessary to update the kernel and reboot nearly every week. Is that right? -- So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998 http://www.mrbrklyn.com DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002 http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive http://www.coinhangout.com - coins! http://www.brooklyn-living.com Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and and extermination camps, but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013 _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
