Kdump with signed images

Matthew Garrett mjg at redhat.com
Fri Oct 26 14:19:05 EDT 2012


On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 01:59:34PM -0400, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-10-26 at 03:39 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > and it must be impossible for anything other than 
> > /sbin/kexec to make the kexec system call.
> 
> Permission is a MAC issue. :)

It's a MAC issue that has to be implemented in the kernel. We can't 
depend on userspace loading any kind of policy.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org



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