On 12/05/2012 04:57 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> I don't think there is anything security-sensitive about that >> information, at least not to root. I could be wrong, of course; I >> wouldn't mind security people telling me about that. > > I don't think there's anything at present, but we'll want to pass the hibernation encryption key from the bootloader to the kernel in the near future. setup_data seems like the easiest way to do that. > And that presumably would be something that cannot be exposed to root? If so we may want to use one of the bits in the setup_data type field as a security flag, perhaps... -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
