fix MSR reading, need rdmsr for now

spectre-meltdown-checker.sh

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #! /bin/sh
 # Spectre & Meltdown checker
 # Stephane Lesimple
-VERSION=0.04
+VERSION=0.05
 
 pstatus()
 {
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ pstatus()
 		yellow) col="\033[103m\033[30m";;
 		*)      col="";;
 	esac
-	/bin/echo -ne "$col$2\033[0m"
+	/bin/echo -ne "$col $2 \033[0m"
 	[ -n "$3" ] && /bin/echo -n " ($3)"
 	/bin/echo
 }
@@ -116,14 +116,23 @@ fi
 if [ ! -e /dev/cpu/0/msr ]; then
 	pstatus yellow UNKNOWN "couldn't read /dev/cpu/0/msr, is msr support enabled in your kernel?"
 else
-	dd if=/dev/cpu/0/msr of=/dev/null bs=1 count=8 skip=72 2>/dev/null
+	if which rdmsr >/dev/null 2>&1; then
-	if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
+		rdmsr 0x48 >/dev/null 2>&1
-		pstatus green YES
+		if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
+			pstatus green YES
+		else
+			pstatus red NO
+		fi
 	else
-		pstatus red NO
+		pstatus yellow UNKNOWN "missing 'rdmsr' tool, please install it, usually it's in the msr-tools package"
+		# doesn't work:
+		#dd if=/dev/cpu/0/msr of=/dev/null bs=1 count=8 skip=72 2>/dev/null
+		#if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
+		#	pstatus green YES
+		#else
+		#	pstatus red NO
+		#fi
 	fi
-	#dd if=/dev/cpu/0/msr of=/dev/null bs=1 count=8 skip=73 2>/dev/null
-	#/bin/echo $?
 fi
 
 if [ "$insmod_msr" = 1 ]; then
@@ -189,7 +198,7 @@ elif [ "$ibrs_enabled" = 1 -o "$ibrs_enabled" = 2 ]; then
 elif [ "$retpoline" = 1 ]; then
 	pstatus green "NOT VULNERABLE" "retpolines mitigate the vulnerability"
 else
-	pstatus red VULNERABLE "IBRS hardware + kernel support OR kernel with retpolines kernel are needed to mitigate the vulnerability"
+	pstatus red VULNERABLE "IBRS hardware + kernel support OR kernel with retpolines are needed to mitigate the vulnerability"
 fi
 
 # MELTDOWN