[elrepo] Is l1tf mitigation in place for ce6 kernel-lt?

Alan Bartlett ajb at elrepo.org
Wed Aug 29 18:29:35 EDT 2018


On 29 August 2018 at 22:58, Brandon Whaley <redkrieg at gmail.com> wrote:
> I see in the changelogs linked with the kernel-lt release notice for 4.4-148
> that l1tf mitigation was added, but the sysfs file I've been using to check
> (/sys/module/kvm_intel/parameters/vmentry_l1d_flush) is not present in the
> latest 4.4-153 release.  Is this a difference in the 4.4 patch vs what's
> available upstream?
>
Our upstream is kernel.org and the sources are used exactly as
provided. No patches are added or removed.

To examine the status of the kernel currently in use by your system, I
would suggest using the following --

cd /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities
for F in *; do echo -e "\n$F:\t\c"; cat $F; done

Alan.


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