On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 5:14 PM Paul Gortmaker <[email protected]> wrote: > > Bruce, Yocto kernel folks: > > Here is the next 5.2.x stable update "extension" primarily created for > the Yocto project, as the next v5.2.x post-EOL release. > > This maintenance is most likely to wind down in September, so folks > should plan their own maintenance or migration path off of this v5.2.x > update stream in advance of that. > > The content is from an audit of what went into the v5.4.45 release - > plus a "reach forward" into v5.4.46 for the SRBDS related commits from > yesterday - hence the much lower than normal commit count. > > There are just about 45 commits deployed here that were applicable for > this v5.2.45 release. The obvious focus on this release is the recent > SRBDS updates. And for that I'll point people at the new file: > > Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/special-register-buffer-data-sampling.rst > > and the status file /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/srbds and > then they can do their own research from there. >
Thanks Paul! I've merged both .44 and .45, so they are both available, including the CVE fix! Bruce > I've put this 5.2.45 queue through my normal testing, with build tests > on x86-64/32, ARM-64/32, PPC and MIPS, plus some static analysis and > finally some sanity runtime tests on x86-64 (raw + qemu/KVM). > > Please find tag v5.2.45 (4928af06cc4c84ae85fbf0f3243465fb7c2018f7) as > the current head of linux-5.2.y branch in the repo in the kernel.org > directory here: > > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux-5.2.y.git/?h=linux-5.2.y > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux-5.2.y.git > > for merge to standard/base in linux-yocto-5.2 and then out from there > into the other base and BSP branches. > > For those who are interested, the evolution of the commits is here: > > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/paulg/longterm-queue-5.2.git/ > > This repo isn't needed for anything; it just exists for transparency and > so people can see the evolution of the raw commits that were originally > selected to create this 5.2.x release. > > Paul. -- - Thou shalt not follow the NULL pointer, for chaos and madness await thee at its end - "Use the force Harry" - Gandalf, Star Trek II
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