On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 06:30:23AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 01:16:27PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > > Even though I said it wasn't a security bug, what I should have > > said as well is that in the new trusted computing model it actually > > is a security problem. Root is only allowed to do whatever it wants > > unless secure boot is disabled in the BIOS. > > What? Who has defined such a "model" for Linux? You aren't thinking > about "UEFI secure boot" here, are you? Or is this something else? Yes. With UEFI secure boot vendors don't want root to be able to load unsigned modules or be able to corrupt memory. Before, if it was root only, then it was still a bug, but not a big deal. regards, dan carpenter _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
