Bug#888263: Spectre : release kernel 4.9.77 to stretch before p-u

[Julien Aubin <julien.aubin@gmail.com>]

Le 24 janv. 2018 14:07, "Yves-Alexis Perez" <corsac@debian.org> a écrit :

On Wed, 2018-01-24 at 14:03 +0100, Julien Aubin wrote:
> I know it... :'( But as you rebuild the kernel image the updated compiler
> may come a bit later w/o needing another kernel update ?

I'm not really sure we will do a kernel binNMU in stretch-pu, but in any case
that's a discussion for when we will actually have a fix.

>
> Anyway if you want someone to test the updates please push the updated
> packages to stretch-p-u and I'll tell you if it works on my four boxes which
> are :
> - An Intel Core i7 4790 w/ NVidia blob 384.111
> - An AMD Phenom 9850 w/ NVidia blob 384.111
> - An Intel Core i7 4800MQ laptop
> - An Intel NUC Atom Apollo Lake

You'll be notified when the upload is done and this bug is closed, so you'll
be able to test at that point.

Regards,
--
Yves-Alexis

Okay so whatever you decide w/ security team (retpoline fixes only or full 4.9.77) I can test if it helps.