[PATCH 08/30] kexec_file: Restrict at runtime if the kernel is locked down

Jiri Bohac jbohac at suse.cz
Thu Feb 22 19:08:14 UTC 2018


On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 02:20:43PM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> commit 87a39b258eca2e15884ee90c3fcd5758d6057b17
> Author: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>
> Date:   Thu Feb 22 13:42:04 2018 +0000
> 
>     kexec_file: split KEXEC_VERIFY_SIG into KEXEC_SIG and KEXEC_SIG_FORCE
>     
>     This is a preparatory patch for kexec_file_load() lockdown.  A locked down
>     kernel needs to prevent unsigned kernel images to be loaded with

s/to be loaded/from being loaded/
(my own mistake :-))

Otherwise looks good. Thanks for improving my idea.

Reviewed-by: Jiri Bohac <jbohac at suse.cz>

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Jiri Bohac <jbohac at suse.cz>
SUSE Labs, Prague, Czechia

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