[PATCH] config: Enable kexec bzImage signature verification

Vivek Goyal vgoyal at redhat.com
Wed Sep 3 19:46:01 UTC 2014


New kexec syscall (kexec_file_load()) can perform bzimage signature
verification.

This will re-enable kexec/kdump on secureboot systems using new syscall.
Currently kexec/kdump is disabled on secureboot systems.

User space (kexec-tools) will be modifed to automatically detect that
running system has secureboot enabled and use new syscall instead of
old one.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal at redhat.com>
---
 config-x86-generic    |    3 ++-
 config-x86_64-generic |    3 +++
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: fedora-linux/config-x86-generic
===================================================================
--- fedora-linux.orig/config-x86-generic	2014-09-03 15:14:22.657901263 -0400
+++ fedora-linux/config-x86-generic	2014-09-03 15:14:26.654924830 -0400
@@ -499,8 +499,9 @@ CONFIG_VMWARE_VMCI_VSOCKETS=m
 CONFIG_XZ_DEC_X86=y
 
 CONFIG_MPILIB=y
-CONFIG_PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER=m
+CONFIG_PKCS7_MESSAGE_PARSER=y
 # CONFIG_PKCS7_TEST_KEY is not set
+CONFIG_SIGNED_PE_FILE_VERIFICATION=y
 CONFIG_SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING=y
 CONFIG_SYSTEM_BLACKLIST_KEYRING=y
 CONFIG_MODULE_SIG=y
Index: fedora-linux/config-x86_64-generic
===================================================================
--- fedora-linux.orig/config-x86_64-generic	2014-09-03 15:14:22.658901268 -0400
+++ fedora-linux/config-x86_64-generic	2014-09-03 15:23:53.655268010 -0400
@@ -42,6 +42,9 @@ CONFIG_CGROUP_HUGETLB=y
 CONFIG_MEM_SOFT_DIRTY=y
 
 CONFIG_KEXEC_JUMP=y
+CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE=y
+CONFIG_KEXEC_VERIFY_SIG=y
+CONFIG_KEXEC_BZIMAGE_VERIFY_SIG=y
 
 CONFIG_ACPI_HOTPLUG_MEMORY=y
 


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