Chrome/Chromium To Require Newer Version Of Linux Kernel

[nachoig]

I still don't understand what's happenning.

I'm using Chromium 41 with Linux 3.14.34 on Arch, which doesn't have this commit, but extensions and apps are working fine here.

The mail at Debian list claims kernel without TSYNC won't be supported by the next releases (but what releases?). Also it doesn't provide any links with this claim, just says someone from Google said this. What I found about TSYNC at Chromium is here and it says the bug is fixed at 42 (currently at beta):

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=308775&can=1&q=SECCOMP_FILTER_FLAG_TSYNC&colspec=ID%20Pri%20M%20Week%20ReleaseBlock%20Cr%20Status%20Owner%20Summary%20OS%20Modified

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=417888&can=1&q=TSYNC&colspec=ID%20Pri%20M%20Week%20ReleaseBlock%20Cr%20Status%20Owner%20Summary%20OS%20Modified

[asdfblah]

So, Kees Cook added a security feature to Linux 3.17, feature that was used by Google. Then, when people found the problem, he backported the patch to older kernels in ubuntu, and apparently didn't inform other distros... and then he moved to Google. Am I right?
Gotta love corporatism.

[newwen]

Well, this is bad news for me. I still run the older Fedora19 kernel (3.14 I believe) because the newer radeon kernel driver crashes my Xorg regularly.

I had been experiencing regular Xorg freezes due to the radeon driver until I upgraded to 3.18 kernel. 3.19 works fine too.

[NuMessiah]

3.4.63!

Hmm, running chrome 40.0.2214.115 (64-bit) under openSUSE 12.2 "Mantis", Linux 3.4.63-2.44-desktop just works!?!

[kernelOfTruth]

lol - not sure what they're talking about

running chromium 42 here on 3.19-based kernel

and there's no SECCOMP_FILTER_FLAG_TSYNC

just took a look in the source code - it already seems to be there


@davidbepo:

perhaps that feature flag already got backported ?

[schmidtbag]

Too bad it 3.17 wasn't the linux 4.0 release. That would have made it very easy to differentiate.

[d2kx]

Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) has the necessary change since November
Ubuntu 14.04.2 + 14.10 (utopic) have the necessary change since October

So Ubuntu is fine...

[kernelOfTruth]

lol - not sure what they're talking about

running chromium 42 here on 3.19-based kernel

and there's no SECCOMP_FILTER_FLAG_TSYNC

[mmstick]

Well, this is bad news for me. I still run the older Fedora19 kernel (3.14 I believe) because the newer radeon kernel driver crashes my Xorg regularly.

What Radeon GPU is this? I don't have any problems with a 4870, 6850, 7950, R9 270X, A4-5000, A8-6400K or A8-7600 with any recent kernels.

[davidbepo]

wtf

chrome 41 with linux kernel 3.14.34-lts-ck everything works fine