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Disable Spectre And Meltdown kernel patches, create facts to track patch status
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Version information

  • 0.1.2 (latest)
released Apr 5th 2018

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Add this module to your Puppetfile:

mod 'kevincoakley-spectre_meltdown', '0.1.2'
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bolt module add kevincoakley-spectre_meltdown
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Manually install this module globally with Puppet module tool:

puppet module install kevincoakley-spectre_meltdown --version 0.1.2

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kevincoakley/spectre_meltdown — version 0.1.2 Apr 5th 2018

spectre_meltdown

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Description

Disable Spectre And Meltdown kernel patches (CVE-2017-5754 and CVE-2017-5715) by adding "nopti" and "spectre_v2=off" to kernel command line for grub.

Adds facts meltdown, spectre_v1, spectre_v2, ibpb_enabled, ibrs_enabled, pti_enabled to record the value of /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/meltdown, /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v1, /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v2, /sys/kernel/debug/x86/ibpb_enabled, /sys/kernel/debug/x86/ibrs_enabled and /sys/kernel/debug/x86/pti_enabled.

Usage

To disable Spectre And Meltdown kernel patches:

class { 'spectre_meltdown':
  ensure => present,
}

To re-enable Spectre And Meltdown kernel patches: **

class { 'spectre_meltdown':
  ensure => absent,
}

** Note: Re-enabling the kernel patches may not be all that is required to project your system from Spectre And Meltdown. Additional kernel updates and vendor firmware may be necessary.