linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] power: disable hibernation if module loading is disabled

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Message-ID: <20110305103444.GA26773@albatros>
Date:	Sat, 5 Mar 2011 13:34:44 +0300
From:	Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, security@...nel.org,
	Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] power: disable hibernation if module loading is
 disabled

On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 23:30 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> modules_disabled surely is not the right interface to disable hibernation
> and I don't really think there's a bug because it doesn't work as you'd like
> it to.  In fact, there would be a bug if it did work that way.

What do you mean here?  Do you agree that you may read kernel image,
slightly change it (including e.g. possible checksums, I didn't bother
to check how much one should change), and write it back?

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Vasiliy Kulikov
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