stable

kernel-6.8.9-300.fc40

FEDORA-2024-c90afc5c01 created by acaringi a year ago for Fedora 40

The 6.8.9 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree.

Reboot Required

After installing this update it is required that you reboot your system to ensure the changes supplied by this update are applied properly.

How to install

Updates may require up to 24 hours to propagate to mirrors. If the following command doesn't work, please retry later:

sudo dnf upgrade --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2024-c90afc5c01

This update has been submitted for testing by acaringi.

a year ago

This update's test gating status has been changed to 'waiting'.

a year ago

farribeiro commented & provided feedback a year ago

karma

Host: KVM/QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009) (pc-q35-7.2) CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790K (8) @ 3.99 GHz Memory: 2.82 GiB

Tests regressions PASSED

Test Case kernel regression

This update's test gating status has been changed to 'passed'.

a year ago

nixuser commented & provided feedback a year ago

karma

Working OK here, tests passing.

Dell Precision T5610 2 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2603 v2 @ 1.80GHz (8 cores total) NVIDIA Corporation GK104 [GeForce GTX 760] (rev a1)

Test Case kernel regression

bretth commented & provided feedback a year ago

karma

default & performance tests pass (KVM)

Test Case kernel regression

js314592 provided feedback a year ago

karma

paulblack commented & provided feedback a year ago

karma

Applied to Fedora IoT on aarch64.

Functional and looks like it might have fixed https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2275290

itrymybest80 provided feedback a year ago

karma

Test Case kernel regression

jforbes edited this update.

a year ago

imabug provided feedback a year ago

karma

boxjellyfish commented & provided feedback a year ago

karma

Default tests passed. AMD Ryzen 4500U using iGPU (Vega 6)

Test Case kernel regression

py0xc3 commented & provided feedback a year ago

karma

Kernel works fine in QEMU/KVM with cpu-passthrough (AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U, x86_64). Regression test PASS.

Tested with F40 KDE Spin, up to date with updates-testing enabled. tainted = 0. I'm testing with confined user accounts (user_u in this case): expected experience.

Extract of vulnerability report excluding "Not affected":

/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spec_rstack_overflow:Vulnerable: Safe RET, no microcode
/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spec_store_bypass:Mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v1:Mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v2:Mitigation: Retpolines; IBPB: conditional; IBRS_FW; STIBP: disabled; RSB filling; PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected; BHI: Not affected

Test Case kernel regression

geraldosimiao commented & provided feedback a year ago

karma

Working fine.

Acer Aspire Intel® Core™ i7-3632QM CPU @ 2.20GHz         
Graphics Processor: Mesa DRI Intel® HD Graphics 4000. driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-7          
wi-fi: Qualcomm Atheros AR9485 Wireless Network. Adapter vendor: Lite-On. driver: ath9k v: kernel.

kernel tests PASSED

Test Case kernel regression

This update has been pushed to testing.

a year ago

This update can be pushed to stable now if the maintainer wishes

a year ago