[GIT PULL] Kernel lockdown for secure boot

Mimi Zohar zohar at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Oct 26 18:22:22 UTC 2017


On Thu, 2017-10-26 at 17:37 +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Hi James,
> 
> Can you pull this patchset into security/next please?
> 
> It adds kernel lockdown support for EFI secure boot.  Note that it doesn't yet
> cover:
> 
> 	bpf	- No agreement as to how
> 	ftrace	- Recently suggested, query sent to maintainer
> 	perf	- Not looked at yet.
> 
> and there are some changes recently proposed that make it work with IMA that
> I'll pass on as a follow up when we've fully worked them out.

There's a major difference between leaving out support and preventing
properly signed code from working properly.  We're already at -rc6.
I'm just not sure how there will be time to include the patches, test,
and send James a subsequent pull request before the next open window?

Mimi

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