Re: [PATCH 07/11] kexec: Disable in a secure boot environment

[Matthew Garrett]

On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 09:33:31PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > The full implementation should trust keys that are trusted by the 
> > platform, so it'd boot any kexec image you cared to sign. Or simply 
> > patch this code out and rebuild and self-sign, or disable the code that 
> > turns off the capability when in secure boot mode. I've no objection to 
> > putting that behind an #ifdef.
> 
> I will be happy to see a version of kexec that accepts signed images,
> allowing the functionality to work in your brave new world where
> everything must be signed.
> 
> Until then I don't see a point in merging anything else.

Fine. We'll just carry this one out of tree for now.
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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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