[saucy SRU] LP#1259570 -- make kexec disablable

Andy Whitcroft apw at canonical.com
Fri Feb 7 16:29:22 UTC 2014


The kexec system is a potential source of security attacks, it makes
sense in tighter security setups to allow onetime initialisation of the
kexec image.  This patch adds a sysctl which locks the current settings
preventing later modification.  This allows us to load a crash kernel
and then prevent it being replaced later.

This is a clean cherry-pick from mainline and is applied to Trusty already.
The security team have requested this be made available in saucy.

Proposing for SRU to saucy.

-apw




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