Intel blocked kernel fixes on Meltdown and Spectre

Stefan Mileschin · 4th September 2018, 10:15

Odd behaviour from Chipzilla which it now has realised was dumb

Linux kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman criticized Intel's slow initial response to the Spectre and Meltdown bugs in a talk at the Open Source Summit North America.

Kroah-Hartman said that when Intel finally decided to tell Linux developers, the disclosure was siloyed.

"Intel silenoed SuSE, they siloed Red Hat, they siloed Canonical. They never told Oracle, and they wouldn't let us talk to each other."

When there is a set of vulnerabilities, Kroah-Hartman said the different Linux vendors typically work together. However, in this case they were forced to work by themselves and each came up with different solutions.

"It really wasn't working, and a number of us kernel developers yelled at [Intel] and pleaded, and we finally got them to allow us to talk to each other the last week of December [2017]", he said.

"All of our Christmas vacations were ruined. This was not good. Intel really messed up on this", Kroah-Hartman said.

https://fudzilla.com/news/47098-inte...wn-and-spectre

4th September 2018, 10:15	#1
Stefan Mileschin [M] Reviewer Join Date: May 2010 Location: Romania Posts: 153,514	Intel blocked kernel fixes on Meltdown and Spectre Odd behaviour from Chipzilla which it now has realised was dumb Linux kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman criticized Intel's slow initial response to the Spectre and Meltdown bugs in a talk at the Open Source Summit North America. Kroah-Hartman said that when Intel finally decided to tell Linux developers, the disclosure was siloyed. "Intel silenoed SuSE, they siloed Red Hat, they siloed Canonical. They never told Oracle, and they wouldn't let us talk to each other." When there is a set of vulnerabilities, Kroah-Hartman said the different Linux vendors typically work together. However, in this case they were forced to work by themselves and each came up with different solutions. "It really wasn't working, and a number of us kernel developers yelled at [Intel] and pleaded, and we finally got them to allow us to talk to each other the last week of December [2017]", he said. "All of our Christmas vacations were ruined. This was not good. Intel really messed up on this", Kroah-Hartman said. https://fudzilla.com/news/47098-inte...wn-and-spectre

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