Re: [PATCH] intel_txt: add s3 userspace memory integrity verification

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Sun Oct 04 2009 - 19:28:14 EST


> So I corrupt memory, but also corrupt tboot_enabled() to return 0....
>
> And... does panic kill the machine quickly enough that no 'bad stuff'
> happens? (Whats bad stuff in this context, anyway?).

panic has notifiers, so indeed someone could put arbitary code into panic.

-Andi
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