Hi, I'm giving up on resolving #6460 (upgrade Linux without breaking memory wipe on a lot of hardware) in time for 0.22.1, *but* my current feeling is that it's important to ship a kernel without lots of known security issues (that affect all Tails users, all the time), even if it breaks the memory wipe feature on a lot of hardware (that affects a few Tails users, in rare cases).
Moreover, we've had two reports (comment #14 on the ticket) of hardware where the memory wipe feature still works, so it may not be as bad as it initially looked. I intend to include something about it in the call for testing of the (untested) RC I plan to write. So, please review'n'merge feature/linux-3.12 into stable for 0.22.1. Note that we've already merged this into devel. Any taker? bertagaz? Sorry for the late notice, given the freeze is in two days, but I wanted to try until the last minute to find a better solution. To end with, we'll still want pretty badly to fix the memory wipe feature at some point. The hope I have is with the results posted on comment #16: at least on a specific laptop, upgrading to a 64-bit kernel and/or to 3.13-rc6 fixes it. So, it might be that when feature/amd64-kernel is merged (0.23, presumably), the problem vanishes at least on some more hardware. Cheers, -- intrigeri | GnuPG key @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/intrigeri.asc | OTR fingerprint @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/otr.asc _______________________________________________ tails-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev
