Teardown of a Failed Linux LTS Spectre Fix

Re:Teardown of a Failed Linux LTS Spectre Fix by segfaultbuserr on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @05:17AM (#20875376)

No. According to the author, Linus Torvalds was the only person who've noticed the problem in the final merge and applied a fix manually before merging it to the mainline. However, the stable kernel trees picked up the old patch, and the broken version was merged to all stable trees silently. The author blames Greg K.H. for fxxking it up.

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Re:Teardown of a Failed Linux LTS Spectre Fix by kanox on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @06:56AM (#20875892)

> Linus Torvalds was the only person who've noticed the problem in the final merge and applied a fix manually before merging it to the mainline

The fix was done as part of the merge commit itself, it should have been a separate patch.

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Re:Teardown of a Failed Linux LTS Spectre Fix by phil9987 on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @07:16AM (#20876000)

So one could argue that Linus kinda failed in fixing the problem he has identified correctly.

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Re:Teardown of a Failed Linux LTS Spectre Fix by phil9987 on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @07:14AM (#20875986)

Makes sense, thanks for the clarification.

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