linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 06/24] kexec_load: Disable at runtime if the kernel is locked down

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Message-ID: <12601.1523477156@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
Date:   Wed, 11 Apr 2018 21:05:56 +0100
From:   David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:     ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Cc:     dhowells@...hat.com, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
        linux-man@...r.kernel.org, linux-api@...r.kernel.org,
        jmorris@...ei.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/24] kexec_load: Disable at runtime if the kernel is locked down

Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com> wrote:

> Maybing I am missing it but I am not seeing anything that would require
> kexec_file_load be configured such that it checks the loaded kernel.
> 
> Without that I don't see the point of disabling kexec_load.

I meant to remove this patch too.

David