Comment 4 for bug 1743812

Hello,

:~/spectre-meltdown-checker$ sudo ./spectre-meltdown-checker.sh
Spectre and Meltdown mitigation detection tool v0.34+

Checking for vulnerabilities on current system
Kernel is Linux 4.15.0-10-generic #11-Ubuntu SMP Tue Feb 13 18:23:35 UTC 2018 x86_64
CPU is Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-2377M CPU @ 1.50GHz

Hardware check
* Hardware support (CPU microcode) for mitigation techniques
  * Indirect Branch Restricted Speculation (IBRS)
    * SPEC_CTRL MSR is available: NO
    * CPU indicates IBRS capability: NO
  * Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier (IBPB)
    * PRED_CMD MSR is available: NO
    * CPU indicates IBPB capability: NO
  * Single Thread Indirect Branch Predictors (STIBP)
    * SPEC_CTRL MSR is available: NO
    * CPU indicates STIBP capability: NO
  * Enhanced IBRS (IBRS_ALL)
    * CPU indicates ARCH_CAPABILITIES MSR availability: NO
    * ARCH_CAPABILITIES MSR advertises IBRS_ALL capability: NO
  * CPU explicitly indicates not being vulnerable to Meltdown (RDCL_NO): NO
  * CPU microcode is known to cause stability problems: NO (model 42 stepping 7 ucode 0x29)
* CPU vulnerability to the three speculative execution attacks variants
  * Vulnerable to Variant 1: YES
  * Vulnerable to Variant 2: YES
  * Vulnerable to Variant 3: YES

CVE-2017-5753 [bounds check bypass] aka 'Spectre Variant 1'
* Mitigated according to the /sys interface: YES (kernel confirms that the mitigation is active)
* Kernel has array_index_mask_nospec: YES (1 occurence(s) found of 64 bits array_index_mask_nospec())
> STATUS: NOT VULNERABLE (Mitigation: __user pointer sanitization)

CVE-2017-5715 [branch target injection] aka 'Spectre Variant 2'
* Mitigated according to the /sys interface: YES (kernel confirms that the mitigation is active)
* Mitigation 1
  * Kernel is compiled with IBRS/IBPB support: NO
  * Currently enabled features
    * IBRS enabled for Kernel space: NO
    * IBRS enabled for User space: NO
    * IBPB enabled: NO
* Mitigation 2
  * Kernel compiled with retpoline option: YES
  * Kernel compiled with a retpoline-aware compiler: YES (kernel reports full retpoline compilation)
> STATUS: NOT VULNERABLE (Mitigation: Full generic retpoline)

CVE-2017-5754 [rogue data cache load] aka 'Meltdown' aka 'Variant 3'
* Mitigated according to the /sys interface: YES (kernel confirms that the mitigation is active)
* Kernel supports Page Table Isolation (PTI): YES
* PTI enabled and active: YES
* Running as a Xen PV DomU: NO
> STATUS: NOT VULNERABLE (Mitigation: PTI)

Regards,
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Cristian