Re: [PATCH 11/24] uswsusp: Disable when the kernel is locked down

From: Jiri Kosina
Date: Thu Apr 06 2017 - 16:25:52 EST


On Thu, 6 Apr 2017, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

> >>> Your swap partition may be located on an NVDIMM or be encrypted.
> >>
> >> An NVDIMM should be considered the same as any other persistent storage.
> >>
> >> It may be encrypted, but where's the key stored, how easy is it to retrieve
> >> and does the swapout code know this?
> >>
> >>> Isn't this a bit overly drastic?
> >>
> >> Perhaps, but if it's on disk and it's not encrypted, then maybe not.
> >
> > Right.
> >
> > Swap encryption is not mandatory and I'm not sure how the hibernate
> > code can verify whether or not it is in use.
>
> BTW, SUSE has patches adding secure boot support to the hibernate code
> and Jiri promised me to post them last year even. :-)

Oh, thanks for a friendly ping :) Adding Joey Lee to CC.

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs