Bug#886822: linux: KPTI backport lacks pti-related flags in /proc/cpuinfo
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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