From owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Mon Feb 26 23:18:01 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA06FF2BF39 for ; Mon, 26 Feb 2018 23:18:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Received: from oceanview.tundraware.com (oceanview.tundraware.com [45.55.60.57]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mailman.tundraware.com", Issuer "mailman.tundraware.com" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5AF3D7204B for ; Mon, 26 Feb 2018 23:18:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (ozzie.tundraware.com [75.145.138.73]) (authenticated bits=0) by oceanview.tundraware.com (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPSA id w1QMnriR060076 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Mon, 26 Feb 2018 16:49:53 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Subject: Re: Now that the meltdown-patches are in STABLE... To: Rainer Duffner , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org References: <9167F335-70C1-4289-B94D-C13900FAD323@ultra-secure.de> From: Tim Daneliuk Message-ID: Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 16:49:48 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <9167F335-70C1-4289-B94D-C13900FAD323@ultra-secure.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.6.2 (oceanview.tundraware.com [45.55.60.57]); Mon, 26 Feb 2018 16:49:54 -0600 (CST) X-TundraWare-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-TundraWare-MailScanner-ID: w1QMnriR060076 X-TundraWare-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-TundraWare-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam (whitelisted), SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-0.895, required 1, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.00, AWL 0.12, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD -0.01) X-TundraWare-MailScanner-From: tundra@tundraware.com X-Spam-Status: No X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 23:18:01 -0000 On 02/26/2018 02:47 PM, Rainer Duffner wrote: > Am I right to assume they aren’t being backported to 11.1 and we have to wait for 11.2? > > > Don’t get me wrong - I’d rather have a stable system when random reboots during the daily or weekly runs. > > But for my own planing, I’d really like to know what the way forward is going to look like. > > > https://wiki.freebsd.org/SpeculativeExecutionVulnerabilities > > Isn’t too helpful in this matter. Ditto for 10.x - will these patches ever be backported there? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Daneliuk tundra@tundraware.com PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/