Thread (58 messages) 58 messages, 10 authors, 2019-06-25

Re: [PATCH V31 10/25] PCI: Lock down BAR access when the kernel is locked down

From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Date: 2019-03-26 20:55:54
Also in: linux-api, linux-pci, lkml

On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 11:28 AM Matthew Garrett
[off-list ref] wrote:
From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>

Any hardware that can potentially generate DMA has to be locked down in
order to avoid it being possible for an attacker to modify kernel code,
allowing them to circumvent disabled module loading or module signing.
Default to paranoid - in future we can potentially relax this for
sufficiently IOMMU-isolated devices.
Does this break vfio?

--Andy
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