[PATCH 0/6] kexec: A new system call to allow in kernel loading

[Jiri Kosina]

On Fri, 22 Nov 2013, Eric Paris wrote:

> Consider a cloud provider who gives their customer a machine where
> they, the cloud provider, is specifying the kernel and initrd.  This
> is a real thing that people do today.  Root on the machine has ZERO
> control over the kernel, bootloader, and initrd.  Check it out,
> qemu/kvm can do this.  But, there is no way to disable kexec if the
> distro configures it in (well, there is in RHEL at least).  

If that root can load LKMs, access /dev/mem, or whatever else, there is 
not really a point disabling kexec anyway, is the same thing can be 
implemented (although with more hassle, of course) through these channels 
as well.

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs