Re: Backport of KPTI to 2.6.32 available

[Corey Minyard]

On 01/11/2018 02:32 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 11:42:38AM -0600, Corey Minyard wrote:
> > I've completed a backport of KPTI from linux-stable-3.2.y to 2.6.32.71, in
> > case anyone is interested and wants to avoid all the work I went through.
> > It's available at:
> >
> > https://github.com/MontaVista-OpenSourceTechnology/linux-nonlts-secfix.git
> > linux-2.6.32-secfix
> >
> > I'll try to keep it up to date with fixes andn with Spectre fixes.
> That's crazy, why update it now, when it's missing hundreds, if not
> thousands, of other much more severe security fixes?  What makes this
> one more "urgent" than all of the others?
>
> Anyway, anyone running this branch is getting a very false sense of "I'm
> running a fixed kernel!"  I strongly recommend it not be used for
> anything...

Yes, this is not useful as it is, you must be maintaining the kernel 
separately. I put
this out as a help to anyone else who might need this. I certainly 
don't expect
it to be used as-is.

> > A 3.10 branch will hopefully be coming, too.
> Again, why?  There's backports for this in the android-common tree if
> you really want it.  But again, you really do not.

Oh yeah, I guess the android kernel would be the way to go here. Never mind.

-corey