Re: Kdump with signed images

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Fri Oct 26 2012 - 14:19:31 EST


On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 01:59:34PM -0400, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-10-26 at 03:39 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > and it must be impossible for anything other than
> > /sbin/kexec to make the kexec system call.
>
> Permission is a MAC issue. :)

It's a MAC issue that has to be implemented in the kernel. We can't
depend on userspace loading any kind of policy.

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