To avoid potential confusion, explicitly ignore "security=" when "lsm=" is
used on the command line, and report that it is happening.
Suggested-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-ker...@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 10 ++++------
security/security.c | 8 ++++++--
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 93d2c97f28fe..a0abd5f56e00 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2340,7 +2340,7 @@
lsm=lsm1,...,lsmN
[SECURITY] Choose order of LSM initialization. This
- overrides CONFIG_LSM.
+ overrides CONFIG_LSM, and the "security=" parameter.
machvec= [IA-64] Force the use of a particular machine-vector
(machvec) in a generic kernel.
@@ -4129,11 +4129,9 @@
Note: increases power consumption, thus should only be
enabled if running jitter sensitive (HPC/RT) workloads.
- security= [SECURITY] Choose a security module to enable at boot.
- If this boot parameter is not specified, only the first
- security module asking for security registration will be
- loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated
- as if no module has been chosen.
+ security= [SECURITY] Choose a legacy "major" security module to
+ enable at boot. This has been deprecated by the
+ "lsm=" parameter.
selinux= [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time.
Format: { "0" | "1" }
diff --git a/security/security.c b/security/security.c
index 3147785e20d7..23cbb1a295a3 100644
--- a/security/security.c
+++ b/security/security.c
@@ -288,9 +288,13 @@ static void __init ordered_lsm_init(void)
ordered_lsms = kcalloc(LSM_COUNT + 1, sizeof(*ordered_lsms),
GFP_KERNEL);
- if (chosen_lsm_order)
+ if (chosen_lsm_order) {
+ if (chosen_major_lsm) {
+ pr_info("security= is ignored because it is superseded
by lsm=\n");
+ chosen_major_lsm = NULL;
+ }
ordered_lsm_parse(chosen_lsm_order, "cmdline");
- else
+ } else
ordered_lsm_parse(builtin_lsm_order, "builtin");
for (lsm = ordered_lsms; *lsm; lsm++)
--
2.17.1
--
Kees Cook
