[PATCH] man/man7/kernel_lockdown.7: remove Secure Boot untruth

Alyssa Ross hi at alyssa.is
Tue Feb 3 19:50:01 UTC 2026


This is true for Fedora, where this page was sourced from, but I don't
believe it has ever been true for the mainline kernel, because Linus
rejected it.

Link: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2088704#p2088704
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFzYbpRAdma0PvqE+9ygySuKzNKByqOzzMufBoovXVnfPw@mail.gmail.com/
Fixes: bb509e6fc ("kernel_lockdown.7: New page documenting the Kernel Lockdown feature")
Signed-off-by: Alyssa Ross <hi at alyssa.is>
---
 man/man7/kernel_lockdown.7 | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man/man7/kernel_lockdown.7 b/man/man7/kernel_lockdown.7
index 5090484ea..5986c8f01 100644
--- a/man/man7/kernel_lockdown.7
+++ b/man/man7/kernel_lockdown.7
@@ -23,9 +23,6 @@ Lockdown: X: Y is restricted, see man kernel_lockdown.7
 .in
 .P
 where X indicates the process name and Y indicates what is restricted.
-.P
-On an EFI-enabled x86 or arm64 machine, lockdown will be automatically enabled
-if the system boots in EFI Secure Boot mode.
 .\"
 .SS Coverage
 When lockdown is in effect, a number of features are disabled or have their
-- 
2.52.0




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