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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2019-08-20 02:17:55 +0200
committerJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>2019-08-20 06:54:16 +0200
commit20657f66ef52e5005369e4ef539d4cbf01eab10d (patch)
treef5f50d1c2f61821f69e41f1237cdafb446af8e5b /kernel
parentlockdown: Lock down TIOCSSERIAL (diff)
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lockdown: Lock down module params that specify hardware parameters (eg. ioport)
Provided an annotation for module parameters that specify hardware parameters (such as io ports, iomem addresses, irqs, dma channels, fixed dma buffers and other types). Suggested-by: Alan Cox <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@google.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/params.c21
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/params.c b/kernel/params.c
index cf448785d058..8e56f8b12d8f 100644
--- a/kernel/params.c
+++ b/kernel/params.c
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
#include <linux/err.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/ctype.h>
+#include <linux/security.h>
#ifdef CONFIG_SYSFS
/* Protects all built-in parameters, modules use their own param_lock */
@@ -96,13 +97,19 @@ bool parameq(const char *a, const char *b)
return parameqn(a, b, strlen(a)+1);
}
-static void param_check_unsafe(const struct kernel_param *kp)
+static bool param_check_unsafe(const struct kernel_param *kp)
{
+ if (kp->flags & KERNEL_PARAM_FL_HWPARAM &&
+ security_locked_down(LOCKDOWN_MODULE_PARAMETERS))
+ return false;
+
if (kp->flags & KERNEL_PARAM_FL_UNSAFE) {
pr_notice("Setting dangerous option %s - tainting kernel\n",
kp->name);
add_taint(TAINT_USER, LOCKDEP_STILL_OK);
}
+
+ return true;
}
static int parse_one(char *param,
@@ -132,8 +139,10 @@ static int parse_one(char *param,
pr_debug("handling %s with %p\n", param,
params[i].ops->set);
kernel_param_lock(params[i].mod);
- param_check_unsafe(&params[i]);
- err = params[i].ops->set(val, &params[i]);
+ if (param_check_unsafe(&params[i]))
+ err = params[i].ops->set(val, &params[i]);
+ else
+ err = -EPERM;
kernel_param_unlock(params[i].mod);
return err;
}
@@ -553,8 +562,10 @@ static ssize_t param_attr_store(struct module_attribute *mattr,
return -EPERM;
kernel_param_lock(mk->mod);
- param_check_unsafe(attribute->param);
- err = attribute->param->ops->set(buf, attribute->param);
+ if (param_check_unsafe(attribute->param))
+ err = attribute->param->ops->set(buf, attribute->param);
+ else
+ err = -EPERM;
kernel_param_unlock(mk->mod);
if (!err)
return len;