[PATCH 24/24] Lock down module params that specify hardware parameters (eg. ioport)

From: David Howells
Date: Wed Apr 05 2017 - 16:18:40 EST


Provided an annotation for module parameters that specify hardware
parameters (such as io ports, iomem addresses, irqs, dma channels, fixed
dma buffers and other types).

Suggested-by: Alan Cox <gnomes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
---

kernel/params.c | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/params.c b/kernel/params.c
index a6d6149c0fe6..04185c5aa929 100644
--- a/kernel/params.c
+++ b/kernel/params.c
@@ -108,13 +108,20 @@ bool parameq(const char *a, const char *b)
return parameqn(a, b, strlen(a)+1);
}

-static void param_check_unsafe(const struct kernel_param *kp)
+static bool param_check_unsafe(const struct kernel_param *kp,
+ const char *doing)
{
if (kp->flags & KERNEL_PARAM_FL_UNSAFE) {
pr_warn("Setting dangerous option %s - tainting kernel\n",
kp->name);
add_taint(TAINT_USER, LOCKDEP_STILL_OK);
}
+
+ if (kp->flags & KERNEL_PARAM_FL_HWPARAM && kernel_is_locked_down()) {
+ pr_err("Command line-specified device addresses, irqs and dma channels are not permitted when the kernel is locked down (%s.%s)\n", doing, kp->name);
+ return false;
+ }
+ return true;
}

static int parse_one(char *param,
@@ -144,8 +151,10 @@ static int parse_one(char *param,
pr_debug("handling %s with %p\n", param,
params[i].ops->set);
kernel_param_lock(params[i].mod);
- param_check_unsafe(&params[i]);
- err = params[i].ops->set(val, &params[i]);
+ if (param_check_unsafe(&params[i], doing))
+ err = params[i].ops->set(val, &params[i]);
+ else
+ err = -EPERM;
kernel_param_unlock(params[i].mod);
return err;
}
@@ -608,6 +617,12 @@ static ssize_t param_attr_show(struct module_attribute *mattr,
return count;
}

+#ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
+#define mod_name(mod) (mod)->name
+#else
+#define mod_name(mod) "unknown"
+#endif
+
/* sysfs always hands a nul-terminated string in buf. We rely on that. */
static ssize_t param_attr_store(struct module_attribute *mattr,
struct module_kobject *mk,
@@ -620,8 +635,10 @@ static ssize_t param_attr_store(struct module_attribute *mattr,
return -EPERM;

kernel_param_lock(mk->mod);
- param_check_unsafe(attribute->param);
- err = attribute->param->ops->set(buf, attribute->param);
+ if (param_check_unsafe(attribute->param, mod_name(mk->mod)))
+ err = attribute->param->ops->set(buf, attribute->param);
+ else
+ err = -EPERM;
kernel_param_unlock(mk->mod);
if (!err)
return len;