[PATCH] thunderbolt: Correct access permissions for active NVM contents

From: Mika Westerberg
Date: Thu Jun 29 2017 - 07:20:30 EST


Firmware upgrade tools that decide which NVM image should be uploaded to
the Thunderbolt controller need to access active parts of the NVM even
if they are not run as root. The information in active NVM is not
considered security critical so we can use the default permissions set
by the NVMem framework.

Writing the NVM image is still left as root only operation.

While there mark the active NVM as read-only in the filesystem.

Reported-by: Yehezkel Bernat <yehezkel.bernat@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Hi,

This applies on top of my Thunderbolt patches in Greg's char-misc-next
branch.

Thanks.

drivers/thunderbolt/switch.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/thunderbolt/switch.c b/drivers/thunderbolt/switch.c
index ab3e8f410444..40219a706309 100644
--- a/drivers/thunderbolt/switch.c
+++ b/drivers/thunderbolt/switch.c
@@ -281,9 +281,11 @@ static struct nvmem_device *register_nvmem(struct tb_switch *sw, int id,
if (active) {
config.name = "nvm_active";
config.reg_read = tb_switch_nvm_read;
+ config.read_only = true;
} else {
config.name = "nvm_non_active";
config.reg_write = tb_switch_nvm_write;
+ config.root_only = true;
}

config.id = id;
@@ -292,7 +294,6 @@ static struct nvmem_device *register_nvmem(struct tb_switch *sw, int id,
config.size = size;
config.dev = &sw->dev;
config.owner = THIS_MODULE;
- config.root_only = true;
config.priv = sw;

return nvmem_register(&config);
--
2.11.0