On Friday, 12 January 2018 6:54 Basil Chupin wrote:
I note that the latest Leap 15.0 build, 84.1, contains the ucode patches for the Spectre and the Meltdown "oopsies"; the one for Intel has a build date of 23 November and the one for the AMD has build date of 4 December.
Are these patches sufficient to protect Leap 15.0 testers/users considering how early those patches were built?
Date shouldn't be a problem, both Intel and AMD knew about the problem for some time and prepared the microcode updates in advance. On the other hand, openSUSE-15.0 kernel doesn't have necessary patches yet (openSUSE 15.0 is still beta so that it has to wait until the work on released products/versions is finished). If you are using 15.0 on a "real" system, I guess the least painful way around is to switch to Kernel:stable repository for some time, e.g. by zypper ar -p 95 http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/stable/standard/ kernel-stable This way you get essentially a Tumbleweed kernel. Michal Kubeček -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org