Re: /dev/mem and secure boot

From: David Howells
Date: Mon Sep 16 2019 - 05:38:28 EST


Jean Delvare <jdelvare@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> I wrongly assumed it had been merged upstream meanwhile but I was
> wrong. David, any reason why this didn't happen?

There were last-minute objections.

The patches got redesigned somewhat by Matthew Garrett and are now pending
pulling once again:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-security-module/alpine.LRH.2.21.1909101402230.20291@xxxxxxxxx/T/#u

> Out of curiosity, are these patches in RHEL kernels?

Fedora, yes, my patchset; RHEL-7 and RHEL-8, no.

David