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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-01-23 19:11:50 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-01-23 19:11:50 -0800
commit3aacd625f20129f5a41ea3ff3b5353b0e4dabd01 (patch)
tree7cf4ea65397f80098b30494df31cfc8f5fa26d63 /kernel/kexec.c
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 ...
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/kexec.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/kexec.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/kexec.c b/kernel/kexec.c
index 9c970167e402..ac738781d356 100644
--- a/kernel/kexec.c
+++ b/kernel/kexec.c
@@ -932,6 +932,7 @@ static int kimage_load_segment(struct kimage *image,
*/
struct kimage *kexec_image;
struct kimage *kexec_crash_image;
+int kexec_load_disabled;
static DEFINE_MUTEX(kexec_mutex);
@@ -942,7 +943,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(kexec_load, unsigned long, entry, unsigned long, nr_segments,
int result;
/* We only trust the superuser with rebooting the system. */
- if (!capable(CAP_SYS_BOOT))
+ if (!capable(CAP_SYS_BOOT) || kexec_load_disabled)
return -EPERM;
/*