Re: [PATCH 5.8 000/124] 5.8.15-rc1 review

[Jeffrin Jose T]

On Wed, 2020-10-14 at 11:56 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 11:00:07PM +0530, Jeffrin Jose T wrote:
> >  * On Mon, 2020-10-12 at 15:30 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.8.15
> > > release.
> > > There are 124 patches in this series, all will be posted as a
> > > response
> > > to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied,
> > > please
> > > let me know.
> > > 
> > > Responses should be made by Wed, 14 Oct 2020 13:31:22 +0000.
> > > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > > 
> > > The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
> > > 	
> > > https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/stable-review/patch-5.8.15-rc1.gz
> > > or in the git tree and branch at:
> > > 	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-
> > > stable-rc.git linux-5.8.y
> > > and the diffstat can be found below.
> > > 
> > > thanks,
> > > 
> > > greg k-h
> > 
> > hello,
> > 
> > Compiled and booted 5.8.15-rc1+ .  No typical dmesg regression.
> > I also  have something to mention here. I saw  a warning related in
> > several  kernels which looks like the following...
> > 
> > "MDS CPU bug present and SMT on, data leak possible"
> > 
> > But now in 5.8.15-rc1+ , that warning disappeared.
> 
> Odds are your microcode/bios finally got updated on that machine,
> right?
> 
i do not think thot the bios got updoted, becouse the bug is still
shown 
to be present in 5.8.13-rc1+  . so moy be the updoted kernel is fixing
the 
bug or gives  o workround.

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