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Message-Id: <20221114-disable-kexec-reset-v4-1-ab809c8d988c@chromium.org>
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2022 13:50:01 +0100
From: Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@...omium.org>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, Philipp Rudo <prudo@...hat.com>,
Eric Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
"Guilherme G. Piccoli" <gpiccoli@...lia.com>
Cc: kexec@...ts.infradead.org, Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@...omium.org>,
Ross Zwisler <zwisler@...nel.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
"Joel Fernandes (Google)" <joel@...lfernandes.org>,
Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v4 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,
--
2.39.0.314.g84b9a713c41-goog-b4-0.11.0-dev-696ae
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