Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755097Ab3IIPz0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Sep 2013 11:55:26 -0400 Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:44952 "EHLO cavan.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754499Ab3IIPwJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Sep 2013 11:52:09 -0400 From: Matthew Garrett To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: keescook@chromium.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, hpa@zytor.com, linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, jmorris@namei.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH 00/12] One more attempt at useful kernel lockdown Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 11:49:34 -0400 Message-Id: <1378741786-18430-1-git-send-email-matthew.garrett@nebula.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.3.1 X-SA-Do-Not-Run: Yes X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2001:470:1f07:1371:5d52:9ee3:3e84:6668 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: matthew.garrett@nebula.com X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on cavan.codon.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1054 Lines: 19 Some use cases require the ability to ensure that anything running in ring 0 is trusted code. We have support for signing the kernel and kernel modules, but there's still a range of exported kernel interfaces that make it easy to modify the running kernel. Previous attempts to implement a generic interface to restrict this have included a new capability (breaks existing userspace) and tying it to a requirement for signed modules (breaks assumptions in certain situations where userspace is already running with restricted privileges). So, this is my final attempt at providing the functionality I'm interested in without inherently tying it to Secure Boot. There's strong parallels between the functionality that I'm interested in and the BSD securelevel interface, so here's a trivial implementation. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/