[elrepo] building with retpoline-enabled compiler?

[Phil Perry]

On 19/03/18 07:11, Phil Perry wrote:
> On 18/03/18 23:30, Leon Fauster via elrepo wrote:
>> OS: EL6
>>
>> Must all kmod packages be rebuild with the new compiler (released 
>> recently)?
>>
>> # dmesg  | grep -i retpo
>> Spectre V2 : Mitigation: Full retpoline
>> Spectre V2 : WARNING: module 'rr174x' built without retpoline-enabled 
>> compiler, may affect Spectre v2 mitigation
>>
>> "Especially for kernel versions" -ge "kernel-2.6.32-696.23.1.el6.x86_64"
>>
>> Just curious,
>>
>> LF
>>
>>
> 
> I have a ticket open with Red Hat on that subject atm, but my feeling is 
> potentially yes, but it may depend upon the driver code in question.
> 

Leon,

I've rebuilt kmod-rr174x against the latest el6 kernel and uploaded the 
package to the elrepo testing repository. Would you be able to test for 
me? Backward compatibility against older kernels will be broken.

kmod-rr174x-2.4-2.el6_9.elrepo.i686.rpm
kmod-rr174x-2.4-2.el6_9.elrepo.x86_64.rpm

If other people have drivers they are using and wish them to be rebuilt, 
please feel free to ask (in a new thread) or file a bug to request and 
we will get to them as soon as we are able.

Regards,

Phil