[arch-proaudio] 4.14.18-rt15 Intel Spectre v2 broken microcode detected

[Joakim Hernberg]

On Sat, 10 Feb 2018 11:10:08 +0100
Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net> wrote:

> today I build 4.14.18-rt15 and now dmesg shows this:
> 
> [rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ dmesg | grep microcode 
> [    0.000000] microcode: microcode updated early to revision 0x23,
> date = 2017-11-20 [    0.000000] Intel Spectre v2 broken microcode
> detected; disabling Speculation Control [    0.469182] microcode:
> sig=0x306c3, pf=0x2, revision=0x23 [    0.469263] microcode:
> Microcode Update Driver: v2.2. [rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ hwinfo
> --cpu | grep Model | sort -u Model: 6.60.3 "Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU
> G1840 @ 2.80GHz" [rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ pacman -Q intel-ucode 
> intel-ucode 20180108-1
> [rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ uname -a
> Linux archlinux 4.14.18-rt15-1-rt-securityink #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Sat
> Feb 10 09:46:04 CET 2018 x86_64 GNU/Linux

And what is wrong with this?

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   Joakim