This following is not present in 4.9.77:

x86/cpu, x86/pti: Do not enable PTI on AMD processor https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/comm...

On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 12:43:43PM +0000, Nick Lowe wrote:

Hi,

On an APU2C4 which uses a AMD GX-412TC SOC, this is incorrectly flagged as being vulnerable to Meltdown in 4.9.77

root@LEDE:/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities# cat meltdown Vulnerable

root@LEDE:/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities# cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 22 model : 48 model name : AMD GX-412TC SOC stepping : 1 microcode : 0x7030105 cpu MHz : 600.000 cache size : 2048 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 4 core id : 0 cpu cores : 4 apicid : 0 initial apicid : 0 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 13 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good acc_power nopl nonstop_tsc extd_apicid aperfmperf eagerfpu pni pclmulqdq monitor ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 movbe popcnt aes xsave avx f16c lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit wdt topoext perfctr_nb bpext ptsc perfctr_l2 cpb hw_pstate retpoline retpoline_amd vmmcall bmi1 xsaveopt arat npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save tsc_scale flushbyasid decodeassists pausefilter pfthreshold overflow_recov bugs : fxsave_leak sysret_ss_attrs null_seg cpu_meltdown spectre_v1 spectre_v2 bogomips : 1996.12 TLB size : 1024 4K pages clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: ts ttp tm 100mhzsteps hwpstate cpb acc_power [13]

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What does the latest 4.14.y release, or Linus's tree show for this CPU?

thanks,

greg k-h