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Signature verification is an important security feature, to protect system from being attacked with a kernel of unknown origin. Kexec rebooting is a way to replace the running kernel, hence need be secured carefully. In the current code of handling signature verification of kexec kernel, the logic is very twisted. It mixes signature verification, IMA signature appraising and kexec lockdown. If there is no KEXEC_SIG_FORCE, kexec kernel image doesn't have one of signature, the supported crypto, and key, we don't think this is wrong, Unless kexec lockdown is executed. IMA is considered as another kind of signature appraising method. If kexec kernel image has signature/crypto/key, it has to go through the signature verification and pass. Otherwise it's seen as verification failure, and won't be loaded. Seems kexec kernel image with an unqualified signature is even worse than those w/o signature at all, this sounds very unreasonable. E.g. If people get a unsigned kernel to load, or a kernel signed with expired key, which one is more dangerous? So, here, let's simplify the logic to improve code readability. If the KEXEC_SIG_FORCE enabled or kexec lockdown enabled, signature verification is mandated. Otherwise, we lift the bar for any kernel image. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200602045952.27487-1-lijiang@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Lianbo Jiang <lijiang@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jiri Bohac <jbohac@suse.cz> Acked-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@google.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@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.