[wang_li]

There is an alternative mitigation you can use which blacklists the function calls when the affected code is not built as a kernel module.

[vaylian]

> alternative mitigation you can use

That's besides the point. If people use the official mitigation on https://copy.fail/#mitigation they will not sufficiently protect themselves on mainstream distros like Ubuntu and Debian.

The page also states

> Most major distributions are shipping the fix now.

This text was probably prepared in advance, but this was simply not true at the time of publication.