Thread (25 messages) 25 messages, 6 authors, 2018-07-12
STALE2889d REVIEWED: 4 (4M)
Revisions (5)
  1. v2 [diff vs current]
  2. v3 [diff vs current]
  3. v4 [diff vs current]
  4. v5 current
  5. v6 [diff vs current]

[PATCH v5 4/8] firmware: add call to LSM hook before firmware sysfs fallback

From: Mimi Zohar <hidden>
Date: 2018-07-02 14:39:11
Also in: kexec, linux-integrity, lkml
Subsystem: driver core, kobjects, debugfs and sysfs, firmware loader (request_firmware), the rest · Maintainers: Greg Kroah-Hartman, "Rafael J. Wysocki", Danilo Krummrich, Luis Chamberlain, Russ Weight, Linus Torvalds

Add an LSM hook prior to allowing firmware sysfs fallback loading.

Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <redacted>
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <redacted>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <redacted>
Acked-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org>

---
Changelog v4:
- call new LSM security_kernel_load_data hook

Changelog v2:
- call security_kernel_read_blob()
- rename the READING_FIRMWARE_FALLBACK kernel_read_file_id enumeration to
READING_FIRMWARE_FALLBACK_SYSFS.

 drivers/base/firmware_loader/fallback.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/base/firmware_loader/fallback.c b/drivers/base/firmware_loader/fallback.c
index 7f732744f0d3..202324291542 100644
--- a/drivers/base/firmware_loader/fallback.c
+++ b/drivers/base/firmware_loader/fallback.c
@@ -651,6 +651,8 @@ static bool fw_force_sysfs_fallback(enum fw_opt opt_flags)
 
 static bool fw_run_sysfs_fallback(enum fw_opt opt_flags)
 {
+	int ret;
+
 	if (fw_fallback_config.ignore_sysfs_fallback) {
 		pr_info_once("Ignoring firmware sysfs fallback due to sysctl knob\n");
 		return false;
@@ -659,6 +661,11 @@ static bool fw_run_sysfs_fallback(enum fw_opt opt_flags)
 	if ((opt_flags & FW_OPT_NOFALLBACK))
 		return false;
 
+	/* Also permit LSMs and IMA to fail firmware sysfs fallback */
+	ret = security_kernel_load_data(LOADING_FIRMWARE);
+	if (ret < 0)
+		return ret;
+
 	return fw_force_sysfs_fallback(opt_flags);
 }
 
-- 
2.7.5

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