Re: [Openipmi-developer] [PATCH 03/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/char/ipmi/

2016-12-01 Thread Corey Minyard
On 12/01/2016 06:30 AM, David Howells wrote: > When the kernel is running in secure boot mode, we lock down the kernel to > prevent userspace from modifying the running kernel image. Whilst this > includes prohibiting access to things like /dev/mem, it must also prevent > access by means of config

[Openipmi-developer] [PATCH 03/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/char/ipmi/

2016-12-01 Thread David Howells
When the kernel is running in secure boot mode, we lock down the kernel to prevent userspace from modifying the running kernel image. Whilst this includes prohibiting access to things like /dev/mem, it must also prevent access by means of configuring driver modules in such a way as to cause a devi