[sle-beta] kernel-default-4.4.131-94.29-1

Waite, Dick (External) Dick.Waite at softwareag.com
Fri May 25 02:50:18 MDT 2018


Sad to say, even with a logon, I'm not allowed to access that bug number...

__R
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From: Marcus Meissner [meissner at suse.de]
Sent: 25 May 2018 10:27
To: Waite, Dick (External)
Cc: Oliver Kurz; sle-beta at lists.suse.com
Subject: Re: [sle-beta] kernel-default-4.4.131-94.29-1

Hi,

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1094405 is the SUSE Bug for this ticket

Ciao, Marcus
On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 08:10:33AM +0000, Waite, Dick (External) wrote:
> Grand Morning,
>
> My input was from the "Linux on 390 Port". My day job is mostly on s390x and I was thinking on updating some machine on Saturday but they do mostly use XFS as do many of my x86_64 virtual machines running on VMware.. Their ticket number is an IBM one.
>
> =========================  ==============================================
> Suse just released a new kernel-default-4.4.131-94.29-1 package for SLES 12SP3 with some kernel security fixes.  If you use XFS, don't install it!
> I installed it and the system wouldn't mount an existing XFS filesystem.  Our friendly Suse engineer (thanks, Roberto!) told me that it's a regression in the kernel.  A *NEW* XFS filesystem created under this kernel mounted under both 4.4.131 and the older 4.4.126.
> The biggest fix with this kernel is that now we have a file for speculative store bypass.  If you cat it (/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spec_store_bypass) you get "Not Affected".  So I don't think waiting for the fix will significantly harm anyone's system security...
> If anyone cares, our ticket is SR101165092091
> Ted Rodriguez-Bell
> Wells Fargo Mainframe and Midrange Services
> tedrb at wellsfargo.com<mailto:tedrb at wellsfargo.com>
>
> ===========================  ============================================
>
> Another post from there ....
>
> =================================  ======================================
>
> There has been an (at least) four way finger pointing contest
> raging for the last couple of months (on the Fedoraproject
> front) between:
>         - xfs developers
>         - systemd developers
>         - dracut developers
>         - innocent victims of XFS
>
> Here is a trailhead to read back and forth from:
>         http://tinyurl.com/y7d2a4he
>
> =================================  ========================================
>
> Regards
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> ________________________________________
> From: sle-beta-bounces at lists.suse.com [sle-beta-bounces at lists.suse.com] on behalf of Oliver Kurz [okurz at suse.de]
> Sent: 25 May 2018 09:17
> To: sle-beta at lists.suse.com
> Subject: Re: [sle-beta] kernel-default-4.4.131-94.29-1
>
> Is it maybe https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1093839 ?
>
> Am 25. Mai 2018 08:30:50 MESZ schrieb Marcus Meissner <meissner at suse.de>:
> >Hi,
> >
> >This seems more like a bug in this SLES 12 SP3 kernel update. Did you
> >have a ticket/bug opened for that?
> >
> >Ciao, Marcus
> >On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 04:35:03AM +0000, Waite, Dick (External) wrote:
> >> Grand Morning,
> >>
> >> There is concern about the latest patch to SLES 12SP3
> >kernel-default-4.4.131-94.29-1 and XFS. It seems to stop an existing
> >XFS filesystem from being mounted.
> >>
> >> As one is asked to apply SUSE latest patches before an UPDATE to
> >SLES15 this is a bit of a worry, we have XFS in all our QE/QA virtual
> >machines.
> >>
> >> Is there anything in this latest patch level that we need for a SLES
> >15 UPDATE ?
> >>
> >> __R
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