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Linux Ready With Fix For Old Intel Pentium 4 CPUs Following Copy & Paste Fail
This morning's 'x86/urgent' pull request ahead of Linux 6.17-rc4 being released later today has a fix for old Intel Pentium 4 processors as well as an Attack Vector Controls update for handling the Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) mitigation.
This morning's "x86/urgent" pull request ahead of Linux 6.17-rc4 being released later today has a fix for old Intel Pentium 4 processors as well as an Attack Vector Controls update for handling the Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) mitigation. The patch being sent to the mainline kernel today adjusts the conditional check for being between Prescott and Cedar Mill as the last of the Pentium 4 cores for constant TSC. Another change worth mentioning with today's x86/urgent pull request is adding Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) to the Attack Vector Controls handling.
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