[manjaro-dev] [dirtyCOW] please update kernels ASAP

[Bernhard Landauer]

Ok. I can confirm that the 4.4 patch works. Building this now.
The 4.8 is now already two sublevels behind, we'll see about that. If it 
doesn't work we could still consider patching the 4.6-rt for now.


On 22/10/16 13:47, Philip Müller wrote:
> Am 22.10.2016 um 13:31 schrieb Bernhard Landauer:
>> I'll try, but we might have to wait for the upstream rt patch to update.
>> Normally the patch doesn't apply to a new sublevel just like that...
> I already tested the patches. The additional changes are only in regard
> of dirtyCOW. So it should work just fine. You can take a look at the
> changes of the incr patches:
>
> https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/incr/patch-4.4.25-26.xz
> https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/incr/patch-4.8.2-3.xz
>
> However, it seems a newer set of patches just came out ...
>
> https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/incr/patch-4.4.26-27.xz
> https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/incr/patch-4.8.3-4.xz
>
> Let me check if they also apply.
>