[OmniOS-discuss] [developer] [call for testing] KPTI images (fwd)

[Andy Fiddaman]

Joyent's illumos fix for the Meltdown vulnerability is nearing
completion and so we  have produced some test images and, along with
Openindiana and SmartOS, are asking people to install and test on as wide a
range of machines as possible.

We've provided this as a hotfix so it can easily be installed into a new
BE by anyone running OmniOS bloody. Have a look at
https://omniosce.org/article/kpti for instructions and some useful mdb
commands to check the installation afterwards.

Please see the original announcement message that was posted to other
lists. If you can, please test and provide feedback.

Thanks,

Andy

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 13:46:50 +0000
From: John Levon <john.levon at joyent.com>
Reply-To: illumos-developer <developer at lists.illumos.org>
To: oi-dev at openindiana.org, developer at lists.illumos.org,
    smartos-discuss at lists.smartos.org
Subject: [developer] [call for testing] KPTI images

Hi all, please see below for test images for the various
distributions. These images include the KPTI (and PCID) work done by
Joyent up to the current kpti-squash branch. They are non-DEBUG except
as noted.

As before, any and all testing is useful, especially with "weird"
things like LDT-using code, older machines, etc.

Thanks to Aur?lien Larcher and Andy Fiddaman for building the OI and
OmniOS images below.

thanks
john

OpenIndiana:

http://dlc-int.openindiana.org/users/aurelien/kpti/

OmniOSce (bloody):

# pkg update pkg
# pkg apply-hot-fix --be-name=kpti
https://downloads.omniosce.org/pkg/bloody/kpti.p5p
# init 6

or for DEBUG bits:

# pkg apply-hot-fix --be-name=kpti
https://downloads.omniosce.org/pkg/bloody/kpti-DEBUG.p5p

SmartOS:

https://us-east.manta.joyent.com/jlevon/public/bits/kpti/platform-20180305T101513Z.iso
https://us-east.manta.joyent.com/jlevon/public/bits/kpti/platform-20180305T101513Z.tgz

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