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Message-ID: <20110308065845.GB1357@ucw.cz>
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 07:58:45 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Cc: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, security@...nel.org,
Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>,
linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] power: disable hibernation if module loading is
disabled
Hi!
> > > 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?
>
> Yes, you can, but that's not the point. The point is that calling an interface
> that disables all possible functionality modifying kernel memory
> "modules_disabled" is completely dumb. Sorry, but that's how it goes.
Fully agreed.
If you want a subset of cap_sys_admin than can't install
rootkit... just do it like that. Create cap_small_admin with such
subset and migrate people that don't need full admin to it.
Pavel
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