From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org, Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Khalid Aziz <khalid@gonehiking.org>,
Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>, Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Kdump with signed images.
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 13:39:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121023173941.GF16496@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87391517ev.fsf_-_@xmission.com>
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 09:26:32AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
[..]
> > I think this will be a new parallel path and this new path should be taken
> > only on kernel booted with secure boot enabled. (Either automatically or
> > by using some kexec command line option). So nothing should be broken
> > because we never supported anything on secure boot enabled system.
>
> Rubbish. Kexec works just fine today on a secure boot enabled system.
> Ignoring the nonsense that there is no such thing as a secure boot
> enabled linux system.
I think it is a security hole for the systems where we don't want to run
unsigned priviliged code. So yes, it works as of today, but at some point
of time we shall have to close this hole.
Thanks
Vivek
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Thread overview: 84+ 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 [this message]
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
2012-10-25 5:43 ` Mimi Zohar
2012-10-25 6:44 ` Kees Cook
2012-10-25 7:01 ` Mimi Zohar
2012-10-25 13:54 ` Vivek Goyal
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
2012-10-23 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
2012-10-25 6:10 ` Mimi Zohar
2012-10-25 14:10 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-10-25 18:40 ` Mimi Zohar
2012-10-25 18:55 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-10-26 1:15 ` Mimi Zohar
2012-10-26 2:39 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-10-26 3:30 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-10-26 17:06 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-10-26 18:37 ` Mimi Zohar
2012-11-01 13:10 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-01 13:53 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-01 14:29 ` Mimi Zohar
2012-11-01 14:43 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-01 14:52 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-11-02 13:23 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-02 14:29 ` Balbir Singh
2012-11-02 14:36 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-03 3:02 ` Balbir Singh
2012-11-02 21:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-11-02 21:32 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-11-05 18:03 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-05 19:44 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-11-05 20:42 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-05 23:01 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-11-06 19:34 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-06 23:51 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-11-08 19:40 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-08 19:45 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-08 21:03 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-11-09 14:39 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-15 5:09 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-11-15 12:56 ` Mimi Zohar
2012-11-08 20:46 ` Mimi Zohar
2012-11-01 14:51 ` Vivek Goyal
2012-11-01 14:57 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-11-01 15:10 ` Khalid Aziz
2012-11-01 16:23 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-11-02 16:57 ` Khalid Aziz
2012-10-26 17:59 ` Mimi Zohar
2012-10-26 18:19 ` Matthew Garrett
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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