[CentOS] Meltdown and Spectre

Mon Feb 12 11:13:57 UTC 2018
isdtor <isdtor at gmail.com>

Does anyone know if Red Hat are working on backporting improved mitigation techniques and features from newer, 4.14.14+ kernels?

$ grep . /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/*
/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/meltdown:Mitigation: PTI
/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v1:Vulnerable
/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v2:Vulnerable: Minimal generic ASM retpoline
$