[CentOS] C6 KPTI cpuinfo flag?

Tue Jan 9 09:44:16 UTC 2018

Robert Arkiletian writes:
> Noticed C6 had a kernel update on Friday.
> 2.6.32-696.18.7.el6.x86_64
> What is the flag in /proc/cpuinfo that indicates the KPTI patch for
> Meltdown CVE-2017-5754 for C6?
> 
> Some distros are using "kaiser" some like Fedora are using "pti". Also
> noticed some (like Fedora) are displaying "cpu_insecure" under the
> bugs: heading of cpuinfo.

None that I know of, but check out https://access.redhat.com/articles/3311301.