[PATCH 01/24] Add the ability to lock down access to the running kernel image

Andy Lutomirski luto at amacapital.net
Thu Apr 12 02:57:12 UTC 2018


On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 9:24 AM, David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>  (*) CONFIG_LOCK_DOWN_KERNEL
>
>      This makes lockdown available and applies it to all the points that
>      need to be locked down if the mode is set.  Lockdown mode can be
>      enabled by providing:
>
>         lockdown=1

By doing this, you are basically committing to making the
protect-kernel-integrity vs protect-kernel-secrecy split be a
second-class citizen if it gets added.

How about lockdown=integrity_and_secrecy or lockdown=2 if you feel
like using numbers?
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