Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 8 Jan 2018 10:36:48 +0100 (CET) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [patch V2 1/2] sysfs/cpu: Add vulnerability folder |
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On Mon, 8 Jan 2018, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > On Sun, Jan 07, 2018 at 10:50:58PM -0500, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 01:22:04AM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > > > Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > > > Create /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities folder and files for > > > > meltdown, spectre_v1 and spectre_v2. > > > > > > It is called "grep -e '^bugs' /proc/cpuinfo". > > > > > > kpti is deduceable from .config and /proc/cmdline . > > > If people don't know what .config they are running, god bless them. > > > > It is not just for meltdown (kpti). You also have retpoline and IBRS > > which is for spectre. > > If you, as kernel developer, are sure that bug is properly mitigated > to the best of your knowledge then clear the bit from the bug mask.
Nope. The CPU is still buggy and does not become less so because we set a mitigation into effect.
Thanks,
tglx
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