Re: [RFC][PATCH] Randomize kernel base address on boot

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:38:53AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > * Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > > Is it common to run kexec-tools as non-root?  It may be necessary 
> > > > to restrict this interface to root when randomization is used 
> > > > (keep in mind nobody's going to force you to turn this on by 
> > > > default, at least for the foreseeable future).
> > > 
> > > kexec-tools runs as root. And I see that /proc/iomem permissions 
> > > are also for root only. So it probably is a non-issue.
> > 
> > it might be an issue to keep in mind for later projects that try to 
> > lock down root itself from being able to patch the kernel (other than 
> > rebooting the box), using signed modules, disabled direct-ioport 
> > access, and other hardened facilities.
> 
> For such environments, Eric Paris had posted a patch to be able to 
> disable loading of kexec/kdump kernel, similar to disabling module 
> loading.
> 
>    https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/1/19/412
> 
> I don't see that in Linus's tree. So looks like it never got 
> committed.

That patch looks sane enough. Ping akpm about it please?

Thanks,

	Ingo