Re: [gentoo-user] reported to NVidia and excepted (Bug in NVidia-drivers-370.23)

[Zhu Sha Zang]

On Thu, 25 Aug 2016 16:00:12 -0400
Mike Gilbert  wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 9:56 AM,   wrote:
> > Dear GENTOO developers,
> > Please, please: As soon as there is an update available for the
> > nvidia-drivers: From the the bottom of my soul I beg you -- please
> > include them as early as possible !!!
> > :) ;)  
> 
> If your message is intended for gentoo developers, you are sending it
> to the wrong place. This is the gentoo-user list; the developer list
> is gentoo-dev.
> 

Better, report this kind of problem in the correct place, IF nobody have done 
yet. 

https://bugs.gentoo.org/

Best regards.

Re: [gentoo-user] reported to NVidia and excepted (Bug in NVidia-drivers-370.23)

[Mike Gilbert]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 9:56 AM,   wrote:
> Dear GENTOO developers,
> Please, please: As soon as there is an update available for the
> nvidia-drivers: From the the bottom of my soul I beg you -- please
> include them as early as possible !!!
> :) ;)

If your message is intended for gentoo developers, you are sending it
to the wrong place. This is the gentoo-user list; the developer list
is gentoo-dev.

[gentoo-user] reported to NVidia and excepted (Bug in NVidia-drivers-370.23)

[Meino . Cramer]

Hi,

a bug has been found in the nvidia-drivers 370.23.

Effect: 
Install the driver
Install a recent blender package
Try to render anything
KABOOM! (read: Blender crashes)

This was first filed as a bug in Blender 
(see https://developer.blender.org/T49113), but soon found
to be a problem in the nvidia-drivers by Brecht.

The problem was then reported to NVidia, and as reported in
the thread mentioned above, NVidia already is testing
a fixed version.

Why is that not an ordinary update as any other update to
the nvidia-drivers?

The versions of that driver prior to the above mentioned one
do not compile with kernels of the 4.7* branch.

And according to this:
http://www.heise.de/security/meldung/Sicherheitsforscher-kapern-HTTP-Verbindungen-von-Linux-3292257.html
Sorry for the german spoken link ... I tried to find that on
www.heise-online.co.uk
but my browser is too """smart""" and redirects me back to www.heise.de
all the time...

...according to that above, there is security hole in kernels prior
to 4.7.*.

So the Blender heads among the Linux heads ;) have two choices: Forget internet 
and render with
the older nvidia-kernel and the affected kernel

OR

Forget Blender and use the internet with the current (buggy)
nvidia-drivers.

Conclusion:
Dear GENTOO developers,
Please, please: As soon as there is an update available for the
nvidia-drivers: From the the bottom of my soul I beg you -- please
include them as early as possible !!!
:) ;)
...since I am two-headed: Blender head AND Linux head


PS:
I included the patch given in one of the previous threads for
compiling the "older" nvidia-driver version with Linux 4.7.*.
The source was patched before compiling but compilation failed
nontheless.

Thank you very much in advance for help and support!

Best regards,
Meino