[elrepo] kernel-ml microcode outdated (re: spectre and meltdown)

[Sam McLeod]

kernel-ml  3.14.11-1 and now 3.14.12-1 is still running the old CPU
microcode 0x22 version from 2017-01-27 which is insecure and was
recently updated to help prevent the spectre security vulnerability in
Intel / x86 architecture.
I forced initramfs to be regenerated but it made no difference.

# uname -a
Linux nas *4.14.12-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64* #1 SMP Fri Jan 5 13:28:56 EST
2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

~ [0] # dmesg|grep -i micro
[    0.000000] microcode: microcode updated early to revision *0x22,
date = 2017-01-27*[    0.489107] microcode: sig=0x306c3, pf=0x2, revision=0x22
[    0.489551] microcode: Microcode Update Driver: v2.2.


~ [0] # rpm -qa | egrep -i 'microcode|firmware|kernel-ml'| egrep -vi
'devel|crystalhd|alsa|aic94|3.10.0|ivtv'kernel-ml-4.14.11-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64
kernel-ml-tools-libs-4.14.12-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64
kernel-ml-headers-4.14.12-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64
linux-firmware-20170606-57.gitc990aae.el7.noarch
kernel-ml-tools-4.14.12-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64
kernel-ml-4.14.12-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64
microcode_ctl-2.1-22.2.el7.x86_64


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