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Markus Schade (lp-markusschade) wrote :

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