[PATCH 02/24] Add the ability to lock down access to the running kernel image

James Morris jmorris at namei.org
Thu Apr 6 21:55:54 UTC 2017


On Thu, 6 Apr 2017, David Howells wrote:

> James Morris <jmorris at namei.org> wrote:
> 
> > > +static __read_mostly bool kernel_locked_down;
> > 
> > How about marking this __ro_after_init if ALLOW_LOCKDOWN_LIFT is not 
> > configured?
> 
> I guess lock_kernel_down() would need to be __init also in that case.

Ideally, yes.

> 
> Also, the implementation of lift_kernel_lockdown() should be conditional on
> CONFIG_ALLOW_LOCKDOWN_LIFT.
> 
> David
> 

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James Morris
<jmorris at namei.org>

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