Re: Re: Linux x86_64 NMI security issues

["Thomas D." <whissi () whissi de>]

Hi,

Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> > Given that none of these are going to apply cleanly on older kernels,
> > do you have backports available for 4.1.y and the longterm stable
> > kernels?
>
> There's this:
>
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/luto/linux.git/commit/?h=x86/nmi-backport
>
> which is a combined effort of me and Ben Hutchings.  It's not synced up
> to the fixes in Linus' tree.
>
> Note that even Linus' tree doesn't have the synchronous modify_ldt fix
> yet.  I sent a hopefully final version of that out a few minutes ago.

Looks like linux-4.1.5 doesn't contain the fix.

Wasn't the patch set sent to stable-linux? Is it not yet ready?


-Thomas