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[PATCH v5 02/16] fs/kernel_read_file: Remove FIRMWARE_EFI_EMBEDDED enum

From: Kees Cook <hidden>
Date: 2020-10-02 17:40:13
Also in: linux-efi, linux-integrity, linux-kselftest, lkml, selinux, stable
Subsystem: driver core, kobjects, debugfs and sysfs, filesystems (vfs and infrastructure), firmware loader (request_firmware), the rest · Maintainers: Greg Kroah-Hartman, "Rafael J. Wysocki", Danilo Krummrich, Alexander Viro, Christian Brauner, Luis Chamberlain, Russ Weight, Linus Torvalds

The "FIRMWARE_EFI_EMBEDDED" enum is a "where", not a "what". It
should not be distinguished separately from just "FIRMWARE", as this
confuses the LSMs about what is being loaded. Additionally, there was
no actual validation of the firmware contents happening.

Fixes: e4c2c0ff00ec ("firmware: Add new platform fallback mechanism and firmware_request_platform()")
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Scott Branden <scott.branden@broadcom.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
---
 drivers/base/firmware_loader/fallback_platform.c | 2 +-
 include/linux/fs.h                               | 3 +--
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/base/firmware_loader/fallback_platform.c b/drivers/base/firmware_loader/fallback_platform.c
index 685edb7dd05a..6958ab1a8059 100644
--- a/drivers/base/firmware_loader/fallback_platform.c
+++ b/drivers/base/firmware_loader/fallback_platform.c
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ int firmware_fallback_platform(struct fw_priv *fw_priv, u32 opt_flags)
 	if (!(opt_flags & FW_OPT_FALLBACK_PLATFORM))
 		return -ENOENT;
 
-	rc = security_kernel_load_data(LOADING_FIRMWARE_EFI_EMBEDDED);
+	rc = security_kernel_load_data(LOADING_FIRMWARE);
 	if (rc)
 		return rc;
 
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 7336e22d0c5d..3fb7af12d033 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -2858,11 +2858,10 @@ static inline void i_readcount_inc(struct inode *inode)
 #endif
 extern int do_pipe_flags(int *, int);
 
-/* This is a list of *what* is being read, not *how*. */
+/* This is a list of *what* is being read, not *how* nor *where*. */
 #define __kernel_read_file_id(id) \
 	id(UNKNOWN, unknown)		\
 	id(FIRMWARE, firmware)		\
-	id(FIRMWARE_EFI_EMBEDDED, firmware)	\
 	id(MODULE, kernel-module)		\
 	id(KEXEC_IMAGE, kexec-image)		\
 	id(KEXEC_INITRAMFS, kexec-initramfs)	\
-- 
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