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From: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Cc: Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@intel.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	kexec@lists.infradead.org,
	linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	horms@verge.net.au, "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@polito.it>,
	Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>,
	Khalid Aziz <khalid@gonehiking.org>
Subject: Re: Kdump with signed images
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 14:25:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1351275954.18115.209.camel@falcor> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121026181904.GA5770@srcf.ucam.org>

On Fri, 2012-10-26 at 19:19 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> 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.

Still a MAC issue, that problably could be addressed by capabilities.  I
suggest you post this issue on the LSM mailing list.  Please cc: Serge,
as the capabilities maintainer.

thanks,

Mimi


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From: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Khalid Aziz <khalid@gonehiking.org>,
	kexec@lists.infradead.org, horms@verge.net.au,
	Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@intel.com>,
	Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@polito.it>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Subject: Re: Kdump with signed images
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 14:25:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1351275954.18115.209.camel@falcor> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121026181904.GA5770@srcf.ucam.org>

On Fri, 2012-10-26 at 19:19 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> 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.

Still a MAC issue, that problably could be addressed by capabilities.  I
suggest you post this issue on the LSM mailing list.  Please cc: Serge,
as the capabilities maintainer.

thanks,

Mimi


  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-26 18:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 133+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-18  3:10 [PATCH v2] kdump: pass acpi_rsdp= to 2nd kernel for efi booting Dave Young
2012-10-18 14:56 ` Khalid Aziz
2012-10-18 19:11   ` Vivek Goyal
2012-10-18 19:22     ` Khalid Aziz
2012-10-18 19:38       ` [RFC] Kdump with UEFI secure boot (Re: [PATCH v2] kdump: pass acpi_rsdp= to 2nd kernel for efi booting) Vivek Goyal
2012-10-18 19:55         ` Matthew Garrett
2012-10-18 22:25         ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-10-19  2:06           ` Vivek Goyal
2012-10-19  3:36             ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-10-19 14:31               ` Vivek Goyal
2012-10-22 20:43                 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-10-22 21:11                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-10-23  2:04                   ` Simon Horman
2012-10-23 13:24                     ` Vivek Goyal
2012-10-23 16:26                       ` [RFC] Kdump with signed images Eric W. Biederman
2012-10-23 17:39                         ` Vivek Goyal
2012-10-23 19:11                           ` Maxim Uvarov
2012-10-23 19:16                             ` Vivek Goyal
2012-10-22 21:07                 ` [RFC] Kdump with UEFI secure boot (Re: [PATCH v2] kdump: pass acpi_rsdp= to 2nd kernel for efi booting) Eric W. Biederman
2012-10-23 13:18                   ` Vivek Goyal
2012-10-23 14:59                     ` Vivek Goyal
2012-10-23 15:41                       ` Matthew Garrett
2012-10-23 16:44                         ` [RFC] Kdump with signed images Eric W. Biederman
2012-10-23 16:52                           ` Matthew Garrett
2012-10-24 17:19                           ` Vivek Goyal
2012-10-24 17:19                             ` Vivek Goyal
2012-10-25  5:43                             ` Mimi Zohar
2012-10-25  5:43                               ` Mimi Zohar
2012-10-25  6:44                               ` Kees Cook
2012-10-25  6:44                                 ` Kees Cook
2012-10-25  7:01                                 ` Mimi Zohar
2012-10-25  7:01                                   ` Mimi Zohar
2012-10-25 13:54                               ` Vivek Goyal
2012-10-25 13:54                                 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-10-25 19:06                                 ` Mimi Zohar
2012-10-25 19:06                                   ` Mimi Zohar
2012-10-25 15:39                         ` [RFC] Kdump with UEFI secure boot (Re: [PATCH v2] kdump: pass acpi_rsdp= to 2nd kernel for efi booting) Vivek Goyal
2012-10-25 15:39                           ` Vivek Goyal
2012-10-23 16:19                       ` Kdump with signed images Eric W. Biederman
2012-10-23 16:31                         ` Matthew Garrett
2012-10-23 17:03                           ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-10-23 17:09                             ` Matthew Garrett
2012-10-24 17:36                         ` Vivek Goyal
2012-10-24 17:36                           ` Vivek Goyal
2012-10-25  6:10                           ` Mimi Zohar
2012-10-25  6:10                             ` Mimi Zohar
2012-10-25 14:10                             ` Vivek Goyal
2012-10-25 14:10                               ` Vivek Goyal
2012-10-25 18:40                               ` Mimi Zohar
2012-10-25 18:40                                 ` Mimi Zohar
2012-10-25 18:55                                 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-10-25 18:55                                   ` Vivek Goyal
2012-10-26  1:15                                   ` Mimi Zohar
2012-10-26  1:15                                     ` Mimi Zohar
2012-10-26  2:39                                     ` Matthew Garrett
2012-10-26  2:39                                       ` Matthew Garrett
2012-10-26  3:30                                       ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-10-26  3:30                                         ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-10-26 17:06                                       ` Vivek Goyal
2012-10-26 17:06                                         ` Vivek Goyal
2012-10-26 18:37                                         ` Mimi Zohar
2012-10-26 18:37                                           ` Mimi Zohar
2012-11-01 13:10                                           ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-01 13:10                                             ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-01 13:53                                             ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-01 13:53                                               ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-01 14:29                                               ` Mimi Zohar
2012-11-01 14:29                                                 ` Mimi Zohar
2012-11-01 14:43                                                 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-01 14:43                                                   ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-01 14:52                                                   ` Matthew Garrett
2012-11-01 14:52                                                     ` Matthew Garrett
2012-11-02 13:23                                                     ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-02 13:23                                                       ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-02 14:29                                                       ` Balbir Singh
2012-11-02 14:29                                                         ` Balbir Singh
2012-11-02 14:36                                                         ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-02 14:36                                                           ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-03  3:02                                                           ` Balbir Singh
2012-11-03  3:02                                                             ` Balbir Singh
2012-11-02 21:34                                                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-11-02 21:34                                                           ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-11-02 21:32                                                       ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-11-02 21:32                                                         ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-11-05 18:03                                                         ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-05 18:03                                                           ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-05 19:44                                                           ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-11-05 19:44                                                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-11-05 20:42                                                             ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-05 20:42                                                               ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-05 23:01                                                               ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-11-05 23:01                                                                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-11-06 19:34                                                             ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-06 19:34                                                               ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-06 23:51                                                               ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-11-06 23:51                                                                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-11-08 19:40                                                                 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-08 19:40                                                                   ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-08 19:45                                                                   ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-08 19:45                                                                     ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-08 21:03                                                                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-11-08 21:03                                                                       ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-11-09 14:39                                                                       ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-09 14:39                                                                         ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-15  5:09                                                                         ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-11-15  5:09                                                                           ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-11-15 12:56                                                                           ` Mimi Zohar
2012-11-15 12:56                                                                             ` Mimi Zohar
2012-11-08 20:46                                                                   ` Mimi Zohar
2012-11-08 20:46                                                                     ` Mimi Zohar
2012-11-01 14:51                                                 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-01 14:51                                                   ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-01 14:57                                                   ` Matthew Garrett
2012-11-01 14:57                                                     ` Matthew Garrett
2012-11-01 15:10                                                     ` Khalid Aziz
2012-11-01 15:10                                                       ` Khalid Aziz
2012-11-01 16:23                                                       ` Matthew Garrett
2012-11-01 16:23                                                         ` Matthew Garrett
2012-11-02 16:57                                                         ` Khalid Aziz
2012-11-02 16:57                                                           ` Khalid Aziz
2012-10-26 17:59                                       ` Mimi Zohar
2012-10-26 17:59                                         ` Mimi Zohar
2012-10-26 18:19                                         ` Matthew Garrett
2012-10-26 18:19                                           ` Matthew Garrett
2012-10-26 18:25                                           ` Mimi Zohar [this message]
2012-10-26 18:25                                             ` Mimi Zohar
2012-10-23 15:51                     ` [RFC] Kdump with UEFI secure boot (Re: [PATCH v2] kdump: pass acpi_rsdp= to 2nd kernel for efi booting) Eric W. Biederman
2012-10-23 17:18                       ` Vivek Goyal
2012-10-19 17:53               ` Vivek Goyal
2012-10-22 21:15                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-11-02 21:36                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-11-05 18:11                     ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-05 19:54                       ` Eric W. Biederman

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