On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 01:33:30PM -0500, tedheadster wrote: > On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 2:37 AM, David Woodhouse <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, 2018-02-02 at 23:52 -0500, tedheadster wrote: > >> I just tested the 4.15 kernel and it is reporting that my old i486 > >> (non-cpuid capable) cpu is vulnerable to all three issues: Meltdown, > >> Spectre V1, and Spectre V2. > >> > >> I find this to be _unlikely_. > > > > This should be fixed in Linus' tree already by commit fec9434a1 > > ("x86/pti: Do not enable PTI on CPUs which are not vulnerable to > > Meltdown"). > > > > We'll make sure it ends up in the stable tree too, if it hasn't > > already. > > David > I believe I got the patch(es) you mention in in the stable 4.15.1 kernel: > > Pull x86/pti updates from Thomas Gleixner: "Another set of melted > spectrum related changes" > (commit 6304672b7f0a5c010002e63a075160856dc4f88d). > > Unfortunately, the symptoms I reported remain on at least the i486 and i686.
Can you try 4.15.2-rc1? Or how about Linus's kernel tree now? There was a lot of spectrum patches merged just this week that were not in 4.15.1. thanks, greg k-h
