On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 9:48 AM, Gerald B. Cox <gbcox@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 5:48 PM, Adam Williamson <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: >> >> >> > >> > Again, from my reading on the web this only affects Intel CPUs of the >> > last decade. >> >> This is certainly not correct. Both the Google researchers and Red >> Hat's security team have stated that many other CPUs and CPU families >> are affected. ARM has already released a statement acknowledging that >> several of their CPUs, including ones very widely used in smartphones >> etc., are affected. >> >> The initial reporting that only Intel CPUs were affected was entirely >> wrong. > > > > My understanding from reading the associated statement from AMD here: > http://www.tomshardware.com/news/meltdown-spectre-exploits-intel-amd-arm-nvidia,36219.html > > is that AMD chips are not affected. Additionally, there is a kernel patch > here: > https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/12/27/2 > which specifically bypasses the fix for AMD processors. That is only for one of the issues, Meltdown. AMD and other vendors are impacted by Spectre. > I'm assuming that Fedora and Redhat both are bypassing this for AMD, > correct? You would need to contact Red Hat, or review the existing advisory, to understand what RHEL is mitigating. Fedora does include the AMD patch in f27, but again that is only relevant to one CVE not all of them. josh _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
