linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 1/3] Documentation: sysctl: Correct kexec_load

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Message-Id: <20221114-disable-kexec-reset-v3-1-4ef4e929adf6@chromium.org>
Date:   Tue, 20 Dec 2022 23:05:43 +0100
From:   Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@...omium.org>
To:     Philipp Rudo <prudo@...hat.com>,
        Eric Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        "Guilherme G. Piccoli" <gpiccoli@...lia.com>
Cc:     linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Joel Fernandes (Google)" <joel@...lfernandes.org>,
        Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@...omium.org>,
        Ross Zwisler <zwisler@...nel.org>, kexec@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v3 1/3] Documentation: sysctl: Correct kexec_load_disabled

kexec_load_disabled affects both ``kexec_load`` and ``kexec_file_load``
syscalls. Make it explicit.

Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@...omium.org>
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
index 98d1b198b2b4..97394bd9d065 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
@@ -450,9 +450,10 @@ this allows system administrators to override the
 kexec_load_disabled
 ===================
 
-A toggle indicating if the ``kexec_load`` syscall has been disabled.
-This value defaults to 0 (false: ``kexec_load`` enabled), but can be
-set to 1 (true: ``kexec_load`` disabled).
+A toggle indicating if the syscalls ``kexec_load`` and
+``kexec_file_load`` have been disabled.
+This value defaults to 0 (false: ``kexec_*load`` enabled), but can be
+set to 1 (true: ``kexec_*load`` disabled).
 Once true, kexec can no longer be used, and the toggle cannot be set
 back to false.
 This allows a kexec image to be loaded before disabling the syscall,

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