Re: [PATCH 4.9 00/92] 4.9.81-stable review

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On Sat, 2018-02-17 at 09:35 -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> Hmm, that chunk really doesn't do what the original patch is supposed to do,
> meaning it won't provide the vulnerability protection it is supposed to provide
> (AFAICS that is Meltdown). Just a note in case anyone is concerned about
> actually providing that protection.

Right now my concern was really about fixing 4.9.81/4.9.82 build failure on
powerpc. Whether the patches backported in those two releases are enough to
fix Meltdown or not is a different thing indeed (and an information I'd be
glad to have too).

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis

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