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Subject: Re: Kdump with signed images
From: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 14:25:54 -0400
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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>

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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