951982 – app-admin/spectre-meltdown-checker-0.46 is outdated and doesn't correctly detect retpoline config on kernel 6.12

Bug 951982 - app-admin/spectre-meltdown-checker-0.46 is outdated and doesn't correctly detect retpoline config on kernel 6.12

Summary: app-admin/spectre-meltdown-checker-0.46 is outdated and doesn't correctly det...

Status:	UNCONFIRMED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal
Assignee:	Craig Andrews

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Reported:	2025-03-24 19:05 UTC by ev
Modified:	2025-03-25 05:48 UTC (History)
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Description ev 2025-03-24 19:05:50 UTC

In recent kernel retpoline config option name has changed. spectre-meltdown-checker-0.46 doesn't support this change and causes false negative results on kernels 6.12.

grep -i retpoline config-6.*
config-6.12.16-gentoo-dist:CONFIG_MITIGATION_RETPOLINE=y
config-6.6.74-gentoo-dist:CONFIG_RETPOLINE=y

Tested on kernel sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-bin

This was solved in upstream installing app-admin/spectre-meltdown-checker-9999 doesn't have this issue.