[PATCH 09/27] uswsusp: Disable when the kernel is locked down

James Morris james.l.morris at oracle.com
Fri Oct 20 23:29:00 UTC 2017


On Thu, 19 Oct 2017, David Howells 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>


Reviewed-by: James Morris <james.l.morris at oracle.com>

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