Re: [PATCH 02/27] Add a SysRq option to lift kernel lockdown

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Wed Mar 06 2019 - 19:12:34 EST


On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 4:10 PM Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 3/6/19 3:58 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > From: Kyle McMartin <kyle@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Make an option to provide a sysrq key that will lift the kernel lockdown,
> > thereby allowing the running kernel image to be accessed and modified.
>
> You still need to document this in Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst,
> like I mentioned last week.

Hm.. On reflection this patch doesn't make much sense without the
automatic lockdown enable functionality, so I'll just drop it from the
patchset instead. Thanks!