Re: [PATCH V33 01/30] security: Support early LSMs

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Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Date
2019-06-21 05:23:59
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Matthew Garrett, 2019-06-21
On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 6:22 PM Matthew Garrett
[off-list ref] wrote:
The lockdown module is intended to allow for kernels to be locked down
early in boot - sufficiently early that we don't have the ability to
kmalloc() yet. Add support for early initialisation of some LSMs, and
then add them to the list of names when we do full initialisation later.
I'm confused.  What does it even mean to lock down the kernel before
we're ready to run userspace code?  We can't possibly be attacked by
user code before there is any to attack us.

Am I missing something here?

--Andy
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