How to CHECK if SPECTRE v2 Patch is enabled in UbuntuMate 18.04

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Hi!

How can I check if SPECTRE v2 Patch and so on is enabled in UbuntuMate 18.04?

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dmesg | grep -i spectre

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To list types of vulnerabilities:
ls /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities

To see status of vulnerability workarounds for above list:
cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/*

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Have you tried the script at github?

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thanks!

On my system, Spectre-patch is enabled…