Activity log for bug #1789834

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2018-08-30 07:08:35 Markus Schade bug added bug
2018-08-30 07:09:03 Markus Schade description due to an off-by-one bug in the L1TF patch, the "rare" case of systems still vulnerable is more frequent. This typically happens on Nehalem+ destop/entry-level server systems with 32G memory installed. Originally this was reported in OpenSUSE, but I can confirm this is also happens with the latest trusty kernel (3.13.0-157-generic) https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/commit/?id=b0a182f875689647b014bc01d36b340217792852 The following patch increases the memory limit for the mitigation on these systems in general: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/commit/?h=x86/urgent&id=cc51e5428ea54f575d49cfcede1d4cb3a72b4ec4 due to an off-by-one bug in the L1TF patch, the "rare" case of systems still vulnerable is more frequent. This typically happens on Nehalem+ destop/entry-level server systems with 32G memory installed. Originally this was reported in OpenSUSE, but I can confirm this is also happens with the latest trusty kernel (3.13.0-157-generic) https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/commit/?id=b0a182f875689647b014bc01d36b340217792852 The following patch increases the memory limit for the mitigation on these systems in general: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/commit/?h=x86/urgent&id=cc51e5428ea54f575d49cfcede1d4cb3a72b4ec4
2018-08-30 07:16:29 Markus Schade linux (Ubuntu): status New Confirmed
2018-09-05 13:29:07 Joseph Salisbury linux (Ubuntu): importance Undecided Medium
2018-09-05 13:29:25 Joseph Salisbury nominated for series Ubuntu Trusty
2018-09-05 13:29:25 Joseph Salisbury bug task added linux (Ubuntu Trusty)
2018-09-05 13:29:31 Joseph Salisbury linux (Ubuntu Trusty): status New Incomplete
2018-09-05 13:29:35 Joseph Salisbury linux (Ubuntu): status Confirmed Incomplete
2018-09-05 13:29:38 Joseph Salisbury linux (Ubuntu Trusty): importance Undecided Medium
2018-09-05 13:29:58 Joseph Salisbury linux (Ubuntu Trusty): status Incomplete Triaged
2018-09-05 13:30:01 Joseph Salisbury linux (Ubuntu): status Incomplete Triaged
2018-09-05 13:31:32 Joseph Salisbury tags kernel-da-key trusty
2018-09-07 13:31:45 Joseph Salisbury nominated for series Ubuntu Bionic
2018-09-07 13:31:45 Joseph Salisbury bug task added linux (Ubuntu Bionic)
2018-09-07 13:31:45 Joseph Salisbury nominated for series Ubuntu Xenial
2018-09-07 13:31:45 Joseph Salisbury bug task added linux (Ubuntu Xenial)
2018-09-07 13:31:51 Joseph Salisbury linux (Ubuntu Xenial): status New Triaged
2018-09-07 13:31:54 Joseph Salisbury linux (Ubuntu Bionic): status New Triaged
2018-09-07 13:31:56 Joseph Salisbury linux (Ubuntu Xenial): importance Undecided Medium
2018-09-07 13:32:01 Joseph Salisbury linux (Ubuntu Bionic): importance Undecided Medium
2018-09-07 17:11:53 Tyler Hicks bug added subscriber Tyler Hicks
2018-09-07 17:58:29 Joseph Salisbury marked as duplicate 1788563
2019-07-24 21:15:24 Brad Figg tags kernel-da-key trusty cscc kernel-da-key trusty