linux-kernel - Re: [BUG] x86 : i486 reporting to be vulnerable to Meltdown/Spectre_V1/Spectre

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Message-ID: <20180206190233.GA10476@kroah.com>
Date:   Tue, 6 Feb 2018 11:02:33 -0800
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     whiteheadm@....org
Cc:     David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>, dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com,
        jikos@...nel.org, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Jamie Iles <jamie@...ieiles.com>, eduval@...zon.com,
        labbott@...hat.com, Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] x86 : i486 reporting to be vulnerable to
 Meltdown/Spectre_V1/Spectre_V2

On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 01:33:30PM -0500, tedheadster wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 2:37 AM, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org> 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