kexec: Disable at runtime if the kernel is locked down
authorMatthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@nebula.com>
Wed, 5 Apr 2017 16:40:30 +0000 (17:40 +0100)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Sun, 14 Jan 2018 19:45:05 +0000 (19:45 +0000)
commit3f60cd616be9d577c9581e664120ac7238405e2d
tree62d650376ff3fe340698a7b89816434ee695396b
parentb54a6bb1ab22008ee040a52df2f50983bf92a831
kexec: Disable at runtime if the kernel is locked down

kexec permits the loading and execution of arbitrary code in ring 0, which
is something that lock-down is meant to prevent. It makes sense to disable
kexec in this situation.

This does not affect kexec_file_load() which can check for a signature on the
image to be booted.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@nebula.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Gbp-Pq: Topic features/all/lockdown
Gbp-Pq: Name 0044-kexec-Disable-at-runtime-if-the-kernel-is-locked-dow.patch
kernel/kexec.c