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| author | Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2016-12-19 16:22:57 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-12-20 09:48:45 -0800 |
| commit | d68a6fe9fccfd00589c61df672b449d66ba3183f (patch) | |
| tree | 0a651c25b42fc38870cbe80ac434a2c107a5690e /Documentation/admin-guide | |
| parent | c7d09367702e2f4faebc6176d24df72dd5066c3e (diff) | |
| download | linux-d68a6fe9fccfd00589c61df672b449d66ba3183f.tar.bz2 | |
ima: define a canonical binary_runtime_measurements list format
The IMA binary_runtime_measurements list is currently in platform native
format.
To allow restoring a measurement list carried across kexec with a
different endianness than the targeted kernel, this patch defines
little-endian as the canonical format. For big endian systems wanting
to save/restore the measurement list from a system with a different
endianness, a new boot command line parameter named "ima_canonical_fmt"
is defined.
Considerations: use of the "ima_canonical_fmt" boot command line option
will break existing userspace applications on big endian systems
expecting the binary_runtime_measurements list to be in platform native
format.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1480554346-29071-10-git-send-email-zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@gmail.com>
Cc: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andreas Steffen <andreas.steffen@strongswan.org>
Cc: Josh Sklar <sklar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/admin-guide')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index be2d6d0a03a4..21e2d8863705 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -1441,6 +1441,10 @@ The builtin appraise policy appraises all files owned by uid=0. + ima_canonical_fmt [IMA] + Use the canonical format for the binary runtime + measurements, instead of host native format. + ima_hash= [IMA] Format: { md5 | sha1 | rmd160 | sha256 | sha384 | sha512 | ... } |