Re: [PATCH] kexec_buffer measure

From: Mimi Zohar
Date: Thu May 02 2019 - 11:49:05 EST


[Cc'ing Paul, John, Casey]

On Mon, 2019-04-22 at 20:18 -0400, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> [Cc'ing LSM mailing list]
>
> On Fri, 2019-04-19 at 17:30 -0700, prakhar srivastava wrote:
>
> > 2) Adding a LSM hook
> > We are doing both the command line and kernel version measurement in IMA.
> > Can you please elaborate on how this can be used outside of the scenario?
> > That will help me come back with a better design and code. I am
> > neutral about this.
>
> As I said previously, initially you might want to only measure the
> kexec boot command line, but will you ever want to verify or audit log
> the boot command line hash?ÂÂPerhaps LSMs would be interested in the
> boot command line. ÂShould this be an LSM hook?

>From an LSM perspective, is there any interest in the boot command line?

Mimi