Re: [Test-Announce] Re: Call for testing: updates to address today's CPU/kernel vulnerability

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On Wed, 03 Jan 2018 16:39:34 -0800
Adam Williamson <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, 2018-01-03 at 15:02 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > Hi folks!
> > 
> > So you might have read some stories today about an issue that's
> > being described as a design flaw in some CPUs which makes it
> > possible for unprivileged users on an affected system to read from
> > privileged memory locations.  
> 
> Update: both updates now have sufficient karma to go stable. Thanks to
> all testers.
> 
> Please do carry on testing the kernel and report any problems you come
> across, thanks!
> 
> If any further fixes require priority testing later, we will send out
> more requests.

It turns out that AMD processors are not affected by this problem.
Does the Fedora kernel implement the patch for the kernel that
bypasses the fix for AMD processors?
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