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

Xiu Jianfeng xiujianfeng at huawei.com
Thu Feb 5 11:48:02 UTC 2026


On 2/4/2026 3:50 AM, Alyssa Ross wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, I also found this issue not long ago, but I haven't had time to 
submit a fix patch yet.

> 
> 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>

I am not sure if appropriate to add my ACK here, if needed, feel free to 
add:

Acked-by: Xiu Jianfeng <xiujianfeng at huawei.com>

> ---
>   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




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