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Kernel lockdown locked out — for now

Rejected submission by Anonymous Coward at 2018-04-19 15:02:10
Digital Liberty

https://lwn.net/Articles/751061/ [lwn.net]

The reason that the lockdown patches will not be merged this time around thus doesn't depend on their core purpose. Instead, the whole thing hinges on a single detail: the patch set automatically turns the lockdown mode on if secure boot is detected at startup time. It is the tying together of lockdown and secure boot that brought about a long and unpleasant linux-kernel thread.


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