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...at these means for people who have CPUs which were not crashing (rebooting being a new euphemism for crashing) , but saw variant 2 Spectre mitigation with the 20180108 microcode, will lose full mitigation until Intel gets its ducks into a row. *eye roll* > Linus Torvalds agrees: > http://tcrn.ch/2n2mEcA His comments aren't about microcode though. And it also looks like he got IBRS and IBPB confused. The better post on this front is https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/1/22/598 As far as I know, there still is no mitigation for Spectre variant 1. -- Chris Murphy ________________________...

...my guess was wrong I realized after reading your other post! > > As with everything else the end user pays one way or another. :-( Here are a couple of posts for our reading pleasure: Intel recommends not installing the microcode now: http://intel.ly/2DsL9qz Linus Torvalds agrees: http://tcrn.ch/2n2mEcA So, wait on those microcode updates for a while. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachme...

...at these means for people who have CPUs which were not crashing (rebooting being a new euphemism for crashing) , but saw variant 2 Spectre mitigation with the 20180108 microcode, will lose full mitigation until Intel gets its ducks into a row. *eye roll* > Linus Torvalds agrees: > http://tcrn.ch/2n2mEcA His comments aren't about microcode though. And it also looks like he got IBRS and IBPB confused. The better post on this front is https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/1/22/598 As far as I know, there still is no mitigation for Spectre variant 1. -- Chris Murphy

On 01/18/2018 09:42 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > > On 01/18/18 03:41, Pete Biggs wrote: >> >>> Look at: >>> >>> https://t.co/6fT61xgtGH >>> >>> Get the latest microcode.dat file from here: >>> >>> https://t.co/zPwagbeJFY >>> >>> See how to update the microcode from the links at the bottom of this