linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V31 25/25] debugfs: Disable open() when kernel is locked down

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Date:   Thu, 28 Mar 2019 03:29:47 +0900
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...gle.com>
Cc:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
        LSM List <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V31 25/25] debugfs: Disable open() when kernel is locked
 down

On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 10:42:18AM -0700, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 10:40 AM Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org> wrote:
> > As far as I'm concerned, preventing root from crashing the system
> > should not be a design goal of lockdown at all.  And I think that the
> > "integrity" mode should be as non-annoying as possible, so I think we
> > should allow reading from debugfs.
> 
> I have no horse in this game - I'm happy to bring back the previous
> approach for integrity mode and block reads entirely in
> confidentiality mode, but I'd rather not spend another release cycle
> arguing about it.

I really do not care either way about any of this :)

greg k-h