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.



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