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

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Date:   Wed, 27 Mar 2019 10:42:18 -0700
From:   Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...gle.com>
To:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Cc:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.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 10:40 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.