The 4.4.14 has a number of important fixes/additions:
- New support for retpolines (enabled but requires newer gcc
to take advantage of). This provides mitigation for Spectre
style attacks.
- Various KPTI fixes including fixes for EFI booting
- More eBPF fixes around out-of-bounds and overflow of
maps. These were used for variant 1 of CVE-2017-5753.
- Several KVM related to CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5715,
CVE-2017-17741.
- New sysfs interface listing vulnerabilities:
/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities
The 4.9.77 kernel also has seems to have most/all of the above
back-ported.
See https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/744287/1fc3c18173f732e7/
for more details on the Spectre mitigation.
Signed-off-by: Rolf Neugebauer <rolf.neugebauer@docker.com>
This looks like there are a couple of minor fixes to the
recent KPTI changes but nothing major...
Signed-off-by: Rolf Neugebauer <rolf.neugebauer@docker.com>
This contains the fixes to the eBPF verifier which allowed
privilege escalation in 4.9 and 4.14 kernels.
Signed-off-by: Rolf Neugebauer <rolf.neugebauer@docker.com>
Note: There were more conflicts in applying the
vmbus patches to 4.13. For now I've just skipped the
conflicting patches so the end-result may be that
Hyper-V sockets on 4.13 may break (if they were not
already broken by the update to 4.13.6).
Signed-off-by: Rolf Neugebauer <rolf.neugebauer@docker.com>
It's kinda obvious that these are kernel configuration files
and, looking at various other distros it seems more common
to call the files 'config-<foo>'.
Signed-off-by: Rolf Neugebauer <rolf.neugebauer@docker.com>
