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| From | Apollon Oikonomopoulos <apoikos@debian.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel |
| Subject | Bug#886822: linux: KPTI backport lacks pti-related flags in /proc/cpuinfo |
| Date | 2018-01-10 13:40 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <v6nPH-1V9-9@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <v6lEd-gR-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <v6lEd-gR-1@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | The Debian Project |
Cross-posted to 2 groups.
On 12:06 Wed 10 Jan , Apollon Oikonomopoulos wrote: > The backport of KPTI/KAISER to 4.9 and 3.16 lacks the pti CPU flag and > the cpu_insecure bug found in /proc/cpuinfo in 4.14. While this does > not affect core KPTI functionality, it makes it harder to determine > whether a system is running with pti enabled without examining kernel > logs. Correcting myself: The flag is there, but it's called "kaiser" and not "pti". This seems to be the same throughout upstream backports of the patchset. Feel free to close this bug report if you wish! Regards, Apollon
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Bug#886822: linux: KPTI backport lacks pti-related flags in /proc/cpuinfo Apollon Oikonomopoulos <apoikos@debian.org> - 2018-01-10 11:20 +0100 Bug#886822: linux: KPTI backport lacks pti-related flags in /proc/cpuinfo Apollon Oikonomopoulos <apoikos@debian.org> - 2018-01-10 13:40 +0100
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