Thread (146 messages) 146 messages, 15 authors, 2017-12-07

[PATCH 09/27] uswsusp: Disable when the kernel is locked down

From: jlee@suse.com (joeyli)
Date: 2017-10-20 06:41:24
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On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 03:51:42PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>

uswsusp allows a user process to dump and then restore kernel state, which
makes it possible to modify the running kernel.  Disable this if the kernel
is locked down.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: linux-pm at vger.kernel.org
I have reviewed and tested this patch. Please feel free to add:

Reviewed-by: "Lee, Chun-Yi" <jlee@suse.com>

Thanks a lot!
Joey Lee
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
---

 kernel/power/user.c |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/kernel/power/user.c b/kernel/power/user.c
index 22df9f7ff672..678ade9decfe 100644
--- a/kernel/power/user.c
+++ b/kernel/power/user.c
@@ -52,6 +52,9 @@ static int snapshot_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
 	if (!hibernation_available())
 		return -EPERM;
 
+	if (kernel_is_locked_down("/dev/snapshot"))
+		return -EPERM;
+
 	lock_system_sleep();
 
 	if (!atomic_add_unless(&snapshot_device_available, -1, 0)) {

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