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>
Mon, 17 Jul 2017 02:01:21 +0000 (03:01 +0100)
commite9e29f78cdab1ed52184dc812ee39a6b4b63de14
tree7e464cc717a2505af5732911e6756fb8abfd28ef
parentd6750117102da06fa940cf63014c918da02725e0
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 0045-kexec-Disable-at-runtime-if-the-kernel-is-locked-dow.patch
kernel/kexec.c