On 1/31/20 3:39 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote:
On Sun, Jan 19, 2020 at 02:07:13AM +0000, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote:
On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 02:16:32AM +0000, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote:
For intel GPUs, except GEN8 (Broadwell), this week's vulnerability
is being covered at Phoronix. Ostensibly, information disclosure to
a local unprivileged user and possible DoS. At this point it is
unclear if this vulnerability can be accessed by malicious code
running in a web browser, so perhaps only relevant to people hosting
virtual systems.
For desktops, it seems to be limited to fingerprinting the machine.
For Gen7 there was apparently a second set of patches, but currently
concerned with correctness and not yet ready for submission - with
the hope that performance problems can be fixed before it is ready
for submission.
Phoronix has now pointed to a second public set of patches at
freedesktop, comments in the thread imply it might need more
(hopefully, minor) revision for kernel style.
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2020-January/253481.html
From the above, it was unclear if the patches are for mesa or the
kernel. After a little investigation, it is the kernel.
The kernel releases kernels *very* frequently. I do not think we need
to do anything except wait for new versions to incorporate the fixes.
-- Bruce
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