[PATCH] man/man7/kernel_lockdown.7: remove Secure Boot untruth
Nicolas Bouchinet
nicolas.bouchinet at oss.cyber.gouv.fr
Fri Feb 6 16:08:35 UTC 2026
On Thu, Feb 05, 2026 at 07:48:02PM +0800, Xiu Jianfeng wrote:
> 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>
>
You can also add mine too :
Acked-by: Nicolas Bouchinet <nicolas.bouchinet at oss.cyber.gouv.fr>
Thank you in advance,
Nicolas
> > ---
> > 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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