Having just seen a report of using "fips=1" on the kernel command line, I could not find it documented anywhere, so add some help for it.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]> Cc: Dexuan Cui <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Cc: Eric Biggers <[email protected]> Cc: Herbert Xu <[email protected]> Cc: "David S. Miller" <[email protected]> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] --- Updates/corrections welcome. v2: drop comment that "fips_enabled can cause some tests to be skipped". Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) --- linux-next-20210329.orig/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ linux-next-20210329/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -1370,6 +1370,20 @@ See Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst for fb_tunnels_only_for_init_ns + fips= Format: { 0 | 1} + Use to disable (0) or enable (1) FIPS mode. + If enabled, any process that is waiting on the + 'fips_fail_notif_chain' will be notified of fips + failures. + This setting can also be modified via sysctl at + /proc/sysctl/crypto/fips_enabled, i.e., + crypto.fips_enabled. + If fips_enabled = 1 and a test fails, it will cause a + kernel panic. + If fips_enabled = 1, RSA test requires a key size of + 2K or larger. + It can also effect which ECC curve is used. + floppy= [HW] See Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst.
