kexec: Disable at runtime if the kernel is locked down
authorMatthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@nebula.com>
Wed, 8 Nov 2017 15:11:32 +0000 (15:11 +0000)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Wed, 15 May 2019 22:07:16 +0000 (23:07 +0100)
commitf09c05d81162d9098cf114f4fb3a52183d5a6422
tree17636d9ebab5ae386bbda4e54490928ebf4667de
parent66fb13b54960297616a74f19d9989c5fd357439f
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>
Acked-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: "Lee, Chun-Yi" <jlee@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org
[bwh: Adjust context to apply after commit a210fd32a46b
 "kexec: add call to LSM hook in original kexec_load syscall"]

Gbp-Pq: Topic features/all/lockdown
Gbp-Pq: Name 0006-kexec-Disable-at-runtime-if-the-kernel-is-locked-dow.patch
kernel/kexec.c