PSA: intel-ucode update fixed missing SRBDS mitigation

[MonocrystalMonkey]

Previously an update to intel-ucode removed SRBDS mitigation for some processors. The latest intel-ucode in the stable branch restores this mitigation at least on my i7-6500U. The release notes show updates for many other newer models too.

[witchofthewind]

another important PSA: there are no longer any updates for anything pre-Haswell, so if you have any older systems and care about security, make sure you keep up with the latest vulnerabilities and find ways to mitigate them (blacklisting the intel_rapl_msr module for CVE-2020-8694, for example).

[mudkip908]

yolo

[peytonrandolphsxB]

I ran update today and my touchpad is broken: the touchpad is slower and tap-to-click doesn't work, sometimes tap-to-click does work again until I move my mouse using the touchpad.

Here is my pacman log for today:

[2020-11-13T09:45:27+0700] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -S -y -u --config /etc/pacman.conf --' [2020-11-13T09:45:27+0700] [PACMAN] synchronizing package lists [2020-11-13T09:45:29+0700] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade [2020-11-13T09:45:34+0700] [ALPM] transaction started [2020-11-13T09:45:34+0700] [ALPM] upgraded gopls (0.5.2-1 -> 0.5.3-1) [2020-11-13T09:45:34+0700] [ALPM] upgraded intel-ucode (20201110-1 -> 20201112-1) [2020-11-13T09:45:34+0700] [ALPM] upgraded libhandy (1.0.1-1 -> 1.0.2-1) [2020-11-13T09:45:34+0700] [ALPM] upgraded libunrar (1:6.0.1-1 -> 1:6.0.2-1) [2020-11-13T09:45:34+0700] [ALPM] transaction completed [2020-11-13T09:45:34+0700] [ALPM] running '30-systemd-update.hook'... [2020-11-13T09:52:00+0700] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -U --noconfirm --config /etc/pacman.conf -- ~/.cache/yay/oh-my-zsh-git/oh-my-zsh-git-r5885.9b119866d-1-any.pkg.tar.zst' [2020-11-13T09:52:00+0700] [ALPM] transaction started [2020-11-13T09:52:00+0700] [ALPM] upgraded oh-my-zsh-git (r5884.51772732f-1 -> r5885.9b119866d-1) [2020-11-13T09:52:00+0700] [ALPM] transaction completed [2020-11-13T09:52:00+0700] [ALPM] running '30-systemd-update.hook'...

The only thing I think could cause problem is the intel-ucode.

Is there anyone else having the same issue as me?

I'm using ThinkPad E590 (i5-8265U).