On 09/03/18 19:16, Akemi Yagi wrote:
On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 10:46 AM, Peter Wood peterwood.sd@gmail.com wrote:
Anyway, I'm stuck with a few 32bit systems exposed to customers and I have to come up with an answer to their question about meltdown/spectre. At this point all I can say is that Red Hat hasn't patched 32bit systems but that is hard to believe so I assumed that I'm wrong and decided to ask the community.
According to a Q&A page about Meltdown and Spectre:
Question - Is the patch available for 32 bit RHEL 6.9? Answer - 32-bit patches are pending, being of lower priority than our RHEL 5 work at this time.
Apparently, it is not getting a high priority.
Akemi
I note Red Hat released el5 kernel updates on Wednesday for Meltdown and Spectre for both i386 and x86_64 architectures [RHSA-2018:0464-01], so maybe 32-bit rhel6 is next on the list (seems strange to me that Red Hat would prioritize RHEL5 over RHEL6, but there you go).
There is also a handy script to check the status on your systems here:
https://github.com/speed47/spectre-meltdown-checker
I do not have any el6 systems running so have not tried it on el6.