"H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]> wrote:

>And that presumably would be something that cannot be exposed to root?
>If so we may want to use one of the bits in the setup_data type field
>as
>a security flag, perhaps...

Yeah, it needs to be hidden from root - but ideally we'd be passing it to the 
second kernel if we kexec. Alternative would be for it to be capability bounded 
to a trusted signed kexec binary if we implement Vivek's IMA-based approach. 

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Matthew Garrett | [email protected]
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