Author: ken
Date: Wed Jan 23 02:28:20 2019
New Revision: 1461
Log:
Admit that the caution on the rustc page is overblown, and the purported
mitigation does nothing.
Modified:
html/trunk/blfs/errata/8.3-systemd/index.html
html/trunk/blfs/errata/8.3/index.html
Modified: html/trunk/blfs/errata/8.3-systemd/index.html
==============================================================================
--- html/trunk/blfs/errata/8.3-systemd/index.html Sun Jan 6 09:51:07
2019 (r1460)
+++ html/trunk/blfs/errata/8.3-systemd/index.html Wed Jan 23 02:28:20
2019 (r1461)
@@ -18,6 +18,11 @@
<li>In Samba, the Recommended dependency of perl module Parse::Yapp
was mistakenly commented out.</li>
+ <li>On the rustc page, the caution about running tests on AMD Ryzens
+ is overstated, and the "mitigation" actually does nothing. The invalid
+ opcodes when running the tests on Ryzens are real, but the reboots were
+ almost-certainly caused by a triple-fault in the kernel - probably an
+ -rc kernel, and no doubt triggered by the invalid opcode.</li>
<!--
<li>The details of microcode updates, particularly for late loading,
reflected how things used to be several kernel versions ago. This
Modified: html/trunk/blfs/errata/8.3/index.html
==============================================================================
--- html/trunk/blfs/errata/8.3/index.html Sun Jan 6 09:51:07 2019
(r1460)
+++ html/trunk/blfs/errata/8.3/index.html Wed Jan 23 02:28:20 2019
(r1461)
@@ -17,6 +17,12 @@
<li>In Samba, the Recommended dependency of perl module Parse::Yapp
was mistakenly commented out.</li>
+
+ <li>On the rustc page, the caution about running tests on AMD Ryzens
+ is overstated, and the "mitigation" actually does nothing. The invalid
+ opcodes when running the tests on Ryzens are real, but the reboots were
+ almost-certainly caused by a triple-fault in the kernel - probably an
+ -rc kernel, and no doubt triggered by the invalid opcode.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Known Security Vulnerabilities</h2>
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