Re: [PATCH 5.5 000/176] 5.5.8-stable review

Dan Rue
2020-03-04T15:25:52Z

On Wed, Mar 04, 2020 at 12:52:32PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 04, 2020 at 04:22:30PM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> > > > So why is this "Vulnerable"? Because it didn't think it could find my
> > > > kernel image for some odd reason, despite it really being in /boot/ (I
> > > > don't use netboot)
> >
> > Now I know the real reason why this test failed.
> > With this note we can conclude this is not a regression.
> >
> > No regressions on arm64, arm, x86_64, and i386 for 4.19, 5.4 and 5.5 branches.
>
> Great, thanks for confirming and for testing all of these.

We originally added spectre-meltdown-checker to lkft for informational
purposes, so that we could compare its report to any actual tests that
produce spectre/meltdown related failures (and help determine if the
problem is hardware/firmware or kernel). In practice, it's never been
helpful (because it's not an actual test) and so we'll be removing it
from LKFT.

Dan

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> greg k-h

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