stable

kernel-6.8.9-300.fc40

FEDORA-2024-c90afc5c01 created by acaringi 2 years 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.

2 years ago

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

2 years ago
User Icon farribeiro commented & provided feedback 2 years ago
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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

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

2 years ago
User Icon nixuser commented & provided feedback 2 years 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)

User Icon bretth commented & provided feedback 2 years ago
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default & performance tests pass (KVM)

User Icon js314592 provided feedback 2 years ago
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User Icon paulblack commented & provided feedback 2 years ago
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Applied to Fedora IoT on aarch64.

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

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jforbes edited this update.

2 years ago
User Icon imabug provided feedback 2 years ago
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User Icon boxjellyfish commented & provided feedback 2 years ago
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Default tests passed. AMD Ryzen 4500U using iGPU (Vega 6)

User Icon py0xc3 commented & provided feedback 2 years ago
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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
User Icon geraldosimiao commented & provided feedback 2 years 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

This update has been pushed to testing.

2 years ago

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

2 years ago
User Icon bojan provided feedback 2 years ago
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User Icon tecnio provided feedback 2 years ago
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User Icon paulblack provided feedback 2 years ago
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BZ#2275290 memory leak in aarch64 beginning with kernel 6.8.4
User Icon eifr0980 provided feedback 2 years ago
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User Icon johnh99 commented & provided feedback 2 years ago
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Working fine here. Ryzen 3700x, Rog Strix B550-F, nvidia from rpmfusion.

User Icon markec provided feedback 2 years ago
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User Icon frantisekz commented & provided feedback 2 years ago
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Works fine on Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 2

User Icon augenauf commented & provided feedback 2 years ago
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works for me on T470s Thinkpad, no regression noted.

User Icon kparal commented & provided feedback 2 years ago
karma

no problems on Thinkpad P1 gen3

This update has been submitted for stable by acaringi.

2 years ago
User Icon pirespro provided feedback 2 years ago
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This update has been pushed to stable.

2 years ago

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Metadata
Type
bugfix
Karma
19
Signed
Content Type
RPM
Test Gating
Autopush Settings
Unstable by Karma
-3
Stable by Karma
disabled
Stable by Time
disabled
Dates
submitted
2 years ago
in testing
2 years ago
in stable
2 years ago
modified
2 years ago
approved
2 years ago
BZ#2275290 memory leak in aarch64 beginning with kernel 6.8.4
0
1
BZ#2276375 Missing randomized slab caches for normal kmalloc: enable CONFIG_RANDOM_KMALLOC_CACHES=y
0
0

Automated Test Results

Test Cases

0 9 Test Case kernel regression