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Linux-next5.1.2 was just uploaded with a severe Intel CVE addressed, see:
https://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg3128513.html
https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-297.html
for more background
As you can read in the above, it has been known for a few months, work has been done in secret, patches are basically untested and many more will probably follow.
So my question is now, risk stability in the linux kernel and already move it now to 5.016? Or my preference, wait a few weeks and let the dust settle a bit, and for those who worry about this, use the linux-next kernel?