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Gabriele Svelto (gabriele.svelto.delete@this.gmail.com) on June 2, 2018 12:44 pm wrote: > I've just finished reading this article at LWN: > The strange story of the ARM Meltdown-fix backport > > It describes how the Meltdown fixes for ARM were backported to stable kernels: in short it appears > that the backported patches had never been tested before being submitted. When pushed on the topic > the developers even admitted to not even having the required hardware to test them. > > I'm not sure how much penetration ARM processors will achieve in the server market > but I'm pretty sure that it's not going to be much if this is ARM's best effort at > ensuring that security vulnerabilities in its cores are properly addressed. > > (for those who might not know, pretty much every enterprise distro - and > quite a few non-enterprise ones - ship stable kernels, not mainline ones)