Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New Intel CPU flaws discovered

2019-05-15 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 15/05/2019 18:25, Dale wrote: >> If my system is off, how's it going to play videos? > > If your system is on, how is it going to replace vulnerable kernels > with patched ones? > > Anyway, it's your system, not mine. I don't really care if you run > vulnerable kernels

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New Intel CPU flaws discovered

2019-05-15 Thread Andrew Savchenko
On Wed, 15 May 2019 18:42:03 +0300 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 15/05/2019 18:25, Dale wrote: > > If my system is off, how's it going to play videos? > > If your system is on, how is it going to replace vulnerable kernels with > patched ones? It is possible to use kernel live patching, see [1]

[gentoo-user] Re: New Intel CPU flaws discovered

2019-05-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 15/05/2019 18:25, Dale wrote: If my system is off, how's it going to play videos? If your system is on, how is it going to replace vulnerable kernels with patched ones? Anyway, it's your system, not mine. I don't really care if you run vulnerable kernels or other software. I just wanted

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New Intel CPU flaws discovered

2019-05-15 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 15/05/2019 13:14, Dale wrote: >> Thanks much for the info.  That was my thinking but I have been wrong >> before, more than I may even know about at times.  ;-)  I'll work on >> updating my kernel but I rarely reboot. > > You make it sound like something to be proud of

[gentoo-user] Re: New Intel CPU flaws discovered

2019-05-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 15/05/2019 13:14, Dale wrote: Thanks much for the info.  That was my thinking but I have been wrong before, more than I may even know about at times.  ;-)  I'll work on updating my kernel but I rarely reboot. You make it sound like something to be proud of, even though it's just foolishnes

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New Intel CPU flaws discovered

2019-05-15 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 6:01 AM Adam Carter wrote: > >> Am I correct to think that "Mitigation" is good enough or does that mean it >> could be affected in some other way or is risky? > > I accept Mitigation as good enough. I'm not sure what alternative there would be... :) Everything reported

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New Intel CPU flaws discovered

2019-05-15 Thread Dale
Adam Carter wrote: > > This appears to be OK on my CPU but want to ask to be sure.   > Here's some info, sort of taking cues from what you posted above. > > > root@fireball / # uname -a > Linux fireball 4.18.12-gentoo #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Oct 14 23:45:12 > CDT 2018 x86_64 AMD FX(t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New Intel CPU flaws discovered

2019-05-15 Thread Adam Carter
> > This appears to be OK on my CPU but want to ask to be sure. Here's some > info, sort of taking cues from what you posted above. > > > root@fireball / # uname -a > Linux fireball 4.18.12-gentoo #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Oct 14 23:45:12 CDT 2018 > x86_64 AMD FX(tm)-8350 Eight-Core Processor AuthenticA

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New Intel CPU flaws discovered

2019-05-15 Thread Dale
Adam Carter wrote: > On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 3:26 PM Adam Carter > wrote: > > Here we go again; > https://mdsattacks.com/ > > > Sounds like AMD not affected. > > > AMD looks good; > $ uname -a > Linux proxy 5.1.2-gentoo #2 SMP Wed May 15 16:39:53 AEST

[gentoo-user] Re: New Intel CPU flaws discovered

2019-05-15 Thread Adam Carter
On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 3:26 PM Adam Carter wrote: > Here we go again; > https://mdsattacks.com/ > > > Sounds like AMD not affected. > AMD looks good; $ uname -a Linux proxy 5.1.2-gentoo #2 SMP Wed May 15 16:39:53 AEST 2019 x86_64 AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 965 Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux $ cat