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Enable hibernate during lockdown
From e4db4f07e77feb1c126e7afbf441e9eae34b4e57 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kelvie Wong <kelvie@kelvie.ca>
Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2022 13:23:25 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Add a lockdown_hibernate parameter
This allows the user to tell the kernel that they know better (namely,
they secured their swap properly), and that it can enable hibernation.
Signed-off-by: Kelvie Wong <kelvie@kelvie.ca>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 5 +++++
kernel/power/hibernate.c | 10 +++++++++-
2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 426fa892d311..54785faba9e0 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2804,6 +2804,11 @@
to extract confidential information from the kernel
are also disabled.
+ lockdown_hibernate [HIBERNATION]
+ Enable hibernation even if lockdown is enabled. Enable this only if
+ your swap is encrypted and secured properly, as an attacker can
+ modify the kernel offline during hibernation.
+
locktorture.nreaders_stress= [KNL]
Set the number of locking read-acquisition kthreads.
Defaults to being automatically set based on the
diff --git a/kernel/power/hibernate.c b/kernel/power/hibernate.c
index 89c71fce225d..2221c531d54c 100644
--- a/kernel/power/hibernate.c
+++ b/kernel/power/hibernate.c
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
#include "power.h"
+static int lockdown_hibernate;
static int nocompress;
static int noresume;
static int nohibernate;
@@ -82,7 +83,7 @@ void hibernate_release(void)
bool hibernation_available(void)
{
return nohibernate == 0 &&
- !security_locked_down(LOCKDOWN_HIBERNATION) &&
+ (lockdown_hibernate || !security_locked_down(LOCKDOWN_HIBERNATION)) &&
!secretmem_active() && !cxl_mem_active();
}
@@ -1340,6 +1341,12 @@ static int __init nohibernate_setup(char *str)
return 1;
}
+static int __init lockdown_hibernate_setup(char *str)
+{
+ lockdown_hibernate = 1;
+ return 1;
+}
+
__setup("noresume", noresume_setup);
__setup("resume_offset=", resume_offset_setup);
__setup("resume=", resume_setup);
@@ -1347,3 +1354,4 @@ __setup("hibernate=", hibernate_setup);
__setup("resumewait", resumewait_setup);
__setup("resumedelay=", resumedelay_setup);
__setup("nohibernate", nohibernate_setup);
+__setup("lockdown_hibernate", lockdown_hibernate_setup);
--
2.37.3
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