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authorLinus Torvalds2014-01-23 19:11:50 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds2014-01-23 19:11:50 -0800
commit3aacd625f20129f5a41ea3ff3b5353b0e4dabd01 (patch)
tree7cf4ea65397f80098b30494df31cfc8f5fa26d63 /Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
parent7e21774db5cc9cf8fe93a64a2f0c6cf47db8ab24 (diff)
parent2a1d689c9ba42a6066540fb221b6ecbd6298b728 (diff)
Merge branch 'akpm' (incoming from Andrew)
Merge second patch-bomb from Andrew Morton: - various misc bits - the rest of MM - add generic fixmap.h, use it - backlight updates - dynamic_debug updates - printk() updates - checkpatch updates - binfmt_elf - ramfs - init/ - autofs4 - drivers/rtc - nilfs - hfsplus - Documentation/ - coredump - procfs - fork - exec - kexec - kdump - partitions - rapidio - rbtree - userns - memstick - w1 - decompressors * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (197 commits) lib/decompress_unlz4.c: always set an error return code on failures romfs: fix returm err while getting inode in fill_super drivers/w1/masters/w1-gpio.c: add strong pullup emulation drivers/memstick/host/rtsx_pci_ms.c: fix ms card data transfer bug userns: relax the posix_acl_valid() checks arch/sh/kernel/dwarf.c: use rbtree postorder iteration helper instead of solution using repeated rb_erase() fs-ext3-use-rbtree-postorder-iteration-helper-instead-of-opencoding-fix fs/ext3: use rbtree postorder iteration helper instead of opencoding fs/jffs2: use rbtree postorder iteration helper instead of opencoding fs/ext4: use rbtree postorder iteration helper instead of opencoding fs/ubifs: use rbtree postorder iteration helper instead of opencoding net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_hash_netiface.c: use rbtree postorder iteration instead of opencoding rbtree/test: test rbtree_postorder_for_each_entry_safe() rbtree/test: move rb_node to the middle of the test struct rapidio: add modular rapidio core build into powerpc and mips branches partitions/efi: complete documentation of gpt kernel param purpose kdump: add /sys/kernel/vmcoreinfo ABI documentation kdump: fix exported size of vmcoreinfo note kexec: add sysctl to disable kexec_load fs/exec.c: call arch_pick_mmap_layout() only once ...
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diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
index 6d486404200e..ee9a2f983b99 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ show up in /proc/sys/kernel:
- domainname
- hostname
- hotplug
+- kexec_load_disabled
- kptr_restrict
- kstack_depth_to_print [ X86 only ]
- l2cr [ PPC only ]
@@ -287,6 +288,18 @@ Default value is "/sbin/hotplug".
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+kexec_load_disabled:
+
+A toggle indicating if the kexec_load syscall has been disabled. This
+value defaults to 0 (false: kexec_load enabled), but can be set to 1
+(true: kexec_load disabled). Once true, kexec can no longer be used, and
+the toggle cannot be set back to false. This allows a kexec image to be
+loaded before disabling the syscall, allowing a system to set up (and
+later use) an image without it being altered. Generally used together
+with the "modules_disabled" sysctl.
+
+==============================================================
+
kptr_restrict:
This toggle indicates whether restrictions are placed on
@@ -331,7 +344,7 @@ A toggle value indicating if modules are allowed to be loaded
in an otherwise modular kernel. This toggle defaults to off
(0), but can be set true (1). Once true, modules can be
neither loaded nor unloaded, and the toggle cannot be set back
-to false.
+to false. Generally used with the "kexec_load_disabled" toggle.
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