On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 7:57 PM, John Covici <cov...@ccs.covici.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 05:52:30 -0400, > Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > > > On 04/25/2018 06:06:32 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > As this version of gentoo-sources has now hit the stable > > > mirrors, would anyone > > > like to summarise the position wrt Spectre, Meltdown and > > > anything else that's > > > relevant? Just to help us numbskulls sleep at night. > > As far as I know anything after 4.9.82 has all the fixes for > meltdown/spectra which have been back ported since this is a long term > release -- I am sure 4.9.95 will be even better and I will go to it > myself in the next days. > > Does grep . /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/* find anything? For 4.16.3; $ grep . /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/* /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/meltdown:Not affected /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v1:Mitigation: __user pointer sanitization /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v2:Mitigation: Full AMD retpoline
