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

Ramon Buldo rbuldo at gmail.com
Sun Oct 23 02:32:22 CEST 2016


open-vm-tools is basically useless, it's already removed in newer
manjaro kernels and we only keep in old ones for "legacy" reasons, you
should remove it for the rt kernels.

2016-10-22 23:43 GMT+02:00 Bernhard Landauer <oberon at manjaro.org>:
> I'll look into that more... :)
>
>
>
> On 22/10/16 23:25, Philip Müller wrote:
>>
>> Am 22.10.2016 um 22:35 schrieb Bernhard Landauer:
>>>
>>> well with 4.8-rt unfortunately I have four more extramodules that won't
>>> build:
>>>
>>> ndiswrapper, nvidiabl, open-vm-tools and r8168
>>>
>>> Maybe it will be best for now to stick with 4.6 and apply the
>>> dirtyCOW-patch with that one. Or should we provide rt without those
>>> modules and tell people who need any of those modules to use rt-lts
>>> instead? Doesn't seem nice...
>>>
>>> What do you guys think?
>>
>> Well, you can patch 4.6 if you like. However what issues do you face
>> with the current 4.8-rt? Maybe there are some patches available. Did you
>> checked for patches I added for the normal 4.8 kernel in some modules?
>>
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