Messages in this thread | | | From | KP Singh <> | Date | Mon, 6 Jul 2020 20:59:13 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] bpf: lsm: Disable or enable BPF LSM at boot time |
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On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 8:51 PM Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> wrote: > > On 7/6/20 6:57 PM, Lorenzo Fontana wrote: > > This option adds a kernel parameter 'bpf_lsm', > > which allows the BPF LSM to be disabled at boot. > > The purpose of this option is to allow a single kernel > > image to be distributed with the BPF LSM built in, > > but not necessarily enabled. > > > > Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Fontana <fontanalorenz@gmail.com> > > Well, this explains what the patch is doing but not *why* you need it exactly. > Please explain your concrete use-case for this patch.
Also, this patch is not really needed as it can already be done with the current kernel parameters.
LSMs can be enabled on the command line with the lsm= parameter. So you can just pass lsm="selinux,capabilities" etc and not pass "bpf" and it will disable the BPF_LSM.
- KP
> > Thanks, > Daniel
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