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kexec allows replacing the current kernel with a different one. This is usually a source of concerns for sysadmins that want to harden a system. Linux already provides a way to disable loading new kexec kernel via kexec_load_disabled, but that control is very coard, it is all or nothing and does not make distinction between a panic kexec and a normal kexec. This patch introduces new sysctl parameters, with finer tuning to specify how many times a kexec kernel can be loaded. The sysadmin can set different limits for kexec panic and kexec reboot kernels. The value can be modified at runtime via sysctl, but only with a stricter value. With these new parameters on place, a system with loadpin and verity enabled, using the following kernel parameters: sysctl.kexec_load_limit_reboot=0 sysct.kexec_load_limit_panic=1 can have a good warranty that if initrd tries to load a panic kernel, a malitious user will have small chances to replace that kernel with a different one, even if they can trigger timeouts on the disk where the panic kernel lives. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221114-disable-kexec-reset-v6-3-6a8531a09b9a@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@igalia.com> # Steam Deck Cc: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Philipp Rudo <prudo@redhat.com> Cc: Ross Zwisler <zwisler@kernel.org> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.