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farnz · 2026-06-01 · via LWN.net comments

Escalating from root to kernel

Posted May 31, 2026 16:49 UTC (Sun) by farnz (subscriber, #17727)
In reply to: Escalating from root to kernel by mb
Parent article: Policies for merging new filesystems

The original version given was Apple's iOS lockdown, where no process can escalate to kernel privileges, with or without owner consent. That depends on Apple being the only entity with the keys to the kingdom, and being trusted to keep the device secure.

On Linux, however, locking down (as iOS has done) so that no root process can escalate to kernel privileges is not going to happen - a root process with owner consent must be able to escalate to kernel privileges, via either a LKM, or by changing the bootloader configuration to change the kernel to one they control, by design.

As a result, any security design that depends on "root processes cannot get kernel privileges" on Linux needs you to be aware of the exception "unless there is owner consent", as opposed to the iOS variant, where the exception is "unless Apple as kernel developer consents".