On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 2:37 PM Paul Gortmaker <[email protected]> wrote:
> Bruce, Yocto kernel folks: > > Here is the *final* 4.18.x stable update "extension" primarily created > for the Yocto project, continuing from the previous v4.18.44 release. > > This final release closes out a run of 25 releases and about 4600 > backports since GregKH stopped maintenance at v4.18.20, just under a > year ago. I hope people have found the update extentsions useful during > that period; both Yocto users and "vanilla" 4.18.x users alike. > > I didn't send an announce for 4.18.44, since I wanted to finish this > 4.18.x run with the addition of the recent spectre-v1 (swapgs) variant > fixes. But I wanted to also keep them separate to ease testing and > evaluation for integrators. So the 44 is "normal" content, and the 45 > is specific to spectre-v1/swapgs content, basically. > > More specifically, the 4.18.44 release contains about 235 mainline > commits based on what was found in 4.19.51 --> 4.19.55 stable content. > > The 4.18.45 release contains the swapgs (CVE-2019-1125) content, plus a > couple powerpc CVE fixes that caught my eye. The x86 users can check: > > # cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v1 > Mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization > > Check Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/spectre.rst for more info. > > I've put this *final* 4.18.45 queue through the usual testing; build > final tag merged!! Bruce > testing on x86-64/32, ARM-64/32, PPC and MIPS, plus some static analysis > and finally some sanity runtime tests on x86-64. The 4.18.44 release > also got the same independent testing prior to starting 4.18.45. > > I did the signed tag just as per the previously released versions. > Please find a signed v4.18.45 tag using this key: > > http://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0xEBCE84042C07D1D6 > > in the repo in the kernel.org directory here: > > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux-4.18.y.git/?h=linux-4.18.y > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux-4.18.y.git > > for merge to standard/base in linux-yocto-4.18 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-4.18.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 4.18.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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