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

Bernhard Landauer oberon at manjaro.org
Sat Oct 22 15:29:44 CEST 2016


4.4-rt is ready, building 4.8-rt now. Thank you for the preparations, 
Philip!


On 22/10/16 14:02, Bernhard Landauer wrote:
> 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.
>>
>
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