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

[Jiri Kosina]

On Fri, 22 Nov 2013, Vivek Goyal wrote:

> > OTOH, does this feature make any sense whatsover on architectures that 
> > don't support secure boot anyway?
> 
> I guess if signed modules makes sense, then being able to kexec signed
> kernel images should make sense too, in general.

Well, that's really a grey zone, I'd say.

In a non-secureboot environment, if you are root, you are able to issue 
reboot into a completely different, self-made kernel anyway, independent 
on whether signed modules are used or not.

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs