Thread (146 messages) 146 messages, 15 authors, 2017-12-07
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[PATCH 07/27] kexec_file: Disable at runtime if securelevel has been set

From: dhowells@redhat.com (David Howells)
Date: 2017-10-19 14:51:33
Also in: linux-efi, lkml
Subsystem: kexec, the rest · Maintainers: Andrew Morton, Baoquan He, Mike Rapoport, Pasha Tatashin, Pratyush Yadav, Linus Torvalds

From: Chun-Yi Lee <redacted>

When KEXEC_VERIFY_SIG is not enabled, kernel should not loads image
through kexec_file systemcall if securelevel has been set.

This code was showed in Matthew's patch but not in git:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/3/13/778

Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Signed-off-by: Chun-Yi Lee <jlee@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: kexec at lists.infradead.org
---

 kernel/kexec_file.c |    7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/kernel/kexec_file.c b/kernel/kexec_file.c
index 9f48f4412297..ff6523f2dcc2 100644
--- a/kernel/kexec_file.c
+++ b/kernel/kexec_file.c
@@ -255,6 +255,13 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(kexec_file_load, int, kernel_fd, int, initrd_fd,
 	if (!capable(CAP_SYS_BOOT) || kexec_load_disabled)
 		return -EPERM;
 
+	/* Don't permit images to be loaded into trusted kernels if we're not
+	 * going to verify the signature on them
+	 */
+	if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KEXEC_VERIFY_SIG) &&
+	    kernel_is_locked_down("kexec of unsigned images"))
+		return -EPERM;
+
 	/* Make sure we have a legal set of flags */
 	if (flags != (flags & KEXEC_FILE_FLAGS))
 		return -EINVAL;

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