Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 Jan 2011 19:26:05 +0800 | From | Cong Wang <> | Subject | Re: [Patch] kexec_load: check CAP_SYS_MODULE |
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于 2011年01月09日 10:09, Eric W. Biederman 写道: > > We aren't dealing with modules I think CAP_SYS_MODULE is totally > irrelevant in the context of kexec.
Yeah, although I don't really understand CAP_SYS_MODULE, but it really confused me to add it to kexec_load() from its name.
> > I think to accomplish what you want we either need a way to disable > sys_kexec_load or possibly a new very targeted capability bit. > > You are making it so that giving someone CAP_SYS_MODULE is giving more > than the ability to load kernel modules. Which seems non-intuitive from > a system management point of view. >
How about CAP_SYS_KEXEC?
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