Fedora 26: 2018-e6fe35524d Critical: Kernel Spectre Mitigations

The kernel meta package

The 4.14.13 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the

tree. This is also the first update to contain some spectre mitigations. Some

patches for variant 1 as well as the initial retpoline build for variant 2.

These variant 2 mitigations will improve with further patches, and once compiler

support is improved.

[ 1 ] Bug #1514969 - Bug in backlight handling renders system almost unusable

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1514969

[ 2 ] Bug #1531182 - Out-of-tree kernel modules fail to build on aarch64

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1531182

[ 3 ] Bug #1532058 - CONFIG_RESET_ATTACK_MITIGATION forces Lenovo X220 to hard power off and power on instead of reboot

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1532058

su -c 'dnf upgrade kernel' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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