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author | Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> | 2015-03-13 09:04:37 -0400 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2015-03-13 09:21:58 -0400 |
commit | d8eb8940417559808fdd0180a4d50f8f0281b822 (patch) | |
tree | d3b221637244e6f274fc9570b487b24c64438e72 | |
parent | 56544d29c3a0e383c0d819fefc9570b2803db193 (diff) |
x86/kexec: Cleanup KEXEC_VERIFY_SIG Kconfig help text
Fix typos and also make it simpler without losing the gist of what it says.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1426251877-11415-1-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/Kconfig | 13 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index 78a3f674c3eb..867bc5bea8dc 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig | |||
@@ -1742,14 +1742,11 @@ config KEXEC_VERIFY_SIG | |||
1742 | depends on KEXEC_FILE | 1742 | depends on KEXEC_FILE |
1743 | ---help--- | 1743 | ---help--- |
1744 | This option makes kernel signature verification mandatory for | 1744 | This option makes kernel signature verification mandatory for |
1745 | kexec_file_load() syscall. If kernel is signature can not be | 1745 | the kexec_file_load() syscall. |
1746 | verified, kexec_file_load() will fail. | 1746 | |
1747 | 1747 | In addition to that option, you need to enable signature | |
1748 | This option enforces signature verification at generic level. | 1748 | verification for the corresponding kernel image type being |
1749 | One needs to enable signature verification for type of kernel | 1749 | loaded in order for this to work. |
1750 | image being loaded to make sure it works. For example, enable | ||
1751 | bzImage signature verification option to be able to load and | ||
1752 | verify signatures of bzImage. Otherwise kernel loading will fail. | ||
1753 | 1750 | ||
1754 | config KEXEC_BZIMAGE_VERIFY_SIG | 1751 | config KEXEC_BZIMAGE_VERIFY_SIG |
1755 | bool "Enable bzImage signature verification support" | 1752 | bool "Enable bzImage signature verification support" |