[PATCH 11/24] uswsusp: Disable when the kernel is locked down

Rafael J. Wysocki rafael at kernel.org
Wed Apr 5 23:38:10 UTC 2017


On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 10:16 PM, David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com> wrote:
> From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org>
>
> uswsusp allows a user process to dump and then restore kernel state, which
> makes it possible to modify the running kernel.  Disable this if the kernel
> is locked down.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org>
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>
> cc: linux-pm at vger.kernel.org

You probably want to disable hibernation altogether in this case.

Thanks,
Rafael
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