On Fri, 12 Jan 2018, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: > Frank Nord <[email protected]> schrieb: > > Peaking at ubuntu: > > https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3522-3/ > > "USN-3522-1 fixed a vulnerability in the Linux kernel to address > > Meltdown (CVE-2017-5754). Unfortunately, that update introduced > > a regression where a few systems failed to boot successfully. This > > update fixes the problem." > > > > Do you know, if the regression mentioned in > > USN-3522-3 exists in stretch's deb9u2 as of today? > > No, the Ubuntu 4.4 regression was an Ubuntu-specific broken hunk > in the backported patch sets, it's unrelated to what you're seeing > in stretch.
For the record, an issue with EFI was found on 4.4 upstream, as well as another issue with EFI on both 4.4 and 4.9 upstream. I believe the fixes will show up in the next -stable. They are related to the changes done due to the meltdown mitigation, and they don't trigger on every system. -- Henrique Holschuh
