Re: [PATCH v2] efi: move some sysfs files to be read-only by root

From: Ard Biesheuvel
Date: Tue Dec 05 2017 - 13:15:28 EST


On 5 December 2017 at 10:41, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks to the scripts/leaking_addresses.pl script, it was found that
> some EFI values should not be readable by non-root users.
>
> So make them root-only, and to do that, add a __ATTR_RO_MODE() macro to
> make this easier, and use it in other places at the same time.
>
> Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Dave Young <dyoung@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
> v2: add VERIFY_OCTAL_PERMISSIONS to __ATTR_RO_MODE() as pointed out by
> Ard.
>

Thanks. I will queue this as a fix in the EFI tree (as well as Dave's
patch that adds the systab comment)

> drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c | 3 +--
> drivers/firmware/efi/esrt.c | 15 ++++++---------
> drivers/firmware/efi/runtime-map.c | 10 +++++-----
> include/linux/sysfs.h | 6 ++++++
> 4 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
>
> --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
> +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
> @@ -143,8 +143,7 @@ static ssize_t systab_show(struct kobjec
> return str - buf;
> }
>
> -static struct kobj_attribute efi_attr_systab =
> - __ATTR(systab, 0400, systab_show, NULL);
> +static struct kobj_attribute efi_attr_systab = __ATTR_RO_MODE(systab, 0400);
>
> #define EFI_FIELD(var) efi.var
>
> --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/esrt.c
> +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/esrt.c
> @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ static const struct sysfs_ops esre_attr_
> };
>
> /* Generic ESRT Entry ("ESRE") support. */
> -static ssize_t esre_fw_class_show(struct esre_entry *entry, char *buf)
> +static ssize_t fw_class_show(struct esre_entry *entry, char *buf)
> {
> char *str = buf;
>
> @@ -117,18 +117,16 @@ static ssize_t esre_fw_class_show(struct
> return str - buf;
> }
>
> -static struct esre_attribute esre_fw_class = __ATTR(fw_class, 0400,
> - esre_fw_class_show, NULL);
> +static struct esre_attribute esre_fw_class = __ATTR_RO_MODE(fw_class, 0400);
>
> #define esre_attr_decl(name, size, fmt) \
> -static ssize_t esre_##name##_show(struct esre_entry *entry, char *buf) \
> +static ssize_t name##_show(struct esre_entry *entry, char *buf) \
> { \
> return sprintf(buf, fmt "\n", \
> le##size##_to_cpu(entry->esre.esre1->name)); \
> } \
> \
> -static struct esre_attribute esre_##name = __ATTR(name, 0400, \
> - esre_##name##_show, NULL)
> +static struct esre_attribute esre_##name = __ATTR_RO_MODE(name, 0400)
>
> esre_attr_decl(fw_type, 32, "%u");
> esre_attr_decl(fw_version, 32, "%u");
> @@ -193,14 +191,13 @@ static int esre_create_sysfs_entry(void
>
> /* support for displaying ESRT fields at the top level */
> #define esrt_attr_decl(name, size, fmt) \
> -static ssize_t esrt_##name##_show(struct kobject *kobj, \
> +static ssize_t name##_show(struct kobject *kobj, \
> struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)\
> { \
> return sprintf(buf, fmt "\n", le##size##_to_cpu(esrt->name)); \
> } \
> \
> -static struct kobj_attribute esrt_##name = __ATTR(name, 0400, \
> - esrt_##name##_show, NULL)
> +static struct kobj_attribute esrt_##name = __ATTR_RO_MODE(name, 0400)
>
> esrt_attr_decl(fw_resource_count, 32, "%u");
> esrt_attr_decl(fw_resource_count_max, 32, "%u");
> --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/runtime-map.c
> +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/runtime-map.c
> @@ -63,11 +63,11 @@ static ssize_t map_attr_show(struct kobj
> return map_attr->show(entry, buf);
> }
>
> -static struct map_attribute map_type_attr = __ATTR_RO(type);
> -static struct map_attribute map_phys_addr_attr = __ATTR_RO(phys_addr);
> -static struct map_attribute map_virt_addr_attr = __ATTR_RO(virt_addr);
> -static struct map_attribute map_num_pages_attr = __ATTR_RO(num_pages);
> -static struct map_attribute map_attribute_attr = __ATTR_RO(attribute);
> +static struct map_attribute map_type_attr = __ATTR_RO_MODE(type, 0400);
> +static struct map_attribute map_phys_addr_attr = __ATTR_RO_MODE(phys_addr, 0400);
> +static struct map_attribute map_virt_addr_attr = __ATTR_RO_MODE(virt_addr, 0400);
> +static struct map_attribute map_num_pages_attr = __ATTR_RO_MODE(num_pages, 0400);
> +static struct map_attribute map_attribute_attr = __ATTR_RO_MODE(attribute, 0400);
>
> /*
> * These are default attributes that are added for every memmap entry.
> --- a/include/linux/sysfs.h
> +++ b/include/linux/sysfs.h
> @@ -117,6 +117,12 @@ struct attribute_group {
> .show = _name##_show, \
> }
>
> +#define __ATTR_RO_MODE(_name, _mode) { \
> + .attr = { .name = __stringify(_name), \
> + .mode = VERIFY_OCTAL_PERMISSIONS(_mode) }, \
> + .show = _name##_show, \
> +}
> +
> #define __ATTR_WO(_name) { \
> .attr = { .name = __stringify(_name), .mode = S_IWUSR }, \
> .store = _name##_store, \
> --
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