[PATCH v5] Add kernel parameter to blacklist modules

[Prarit Bhargava]

Rusty, this looks like it will work.  I tested this by adding

	module_blacklist=acpi_cpufreq,dummy_module

as a kernel parameter, and verified that acpi_cpufreq was not loaded
during the initrd and systemd phases of the boot.  I then tried to
manually load a simple module called dummy_module.ko which fails with

[root@dell-per330-01 ~]# insmod dummy-module.ko
insmod: ERROR: could not insert module dummy-module.ko: Operation not
permitted

P.

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Blacklisting a module in linux has long been a problem.  The current
procedure is to use rd.blacklist=module_name, however, that doesn't
cover the case after the initramfs and before a boot prompt (where one
is supposed to use /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf to blacklist
runtime loading). Using rd.shell to get an early prompt is hit-or-miss,
and doesn't cover all situations AFAICT.

This patch adds this functionality of permanently blacklisting a module
by its name via the kernel parameter module_blacklist=module_name.

[v2]: Rusty, use core_param() instead of __setup() which simplifies
things.

[v3]: Rusty, undo wreckage from strsep()

[v4]: Rusty, simpler version of blacklisted()

Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-doc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
 Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt |    3 +++
 kernel/module.c                     |   24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 82b42c958d1c..c720b96f2efc 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2295,6 +2295,9 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 			Note that if CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is set, that
 			is always true, so this option does nothing.
 
+	module_blacklist=  [KNL] Do not load a comma-separated list of
+			modules.  Useful for debugging problem modules.
+
 	mousedev.tap_time=
 			[MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
 			leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index 5f71aa63ed2a..33b85824d30b 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -3155,6 +3155,27 @@ int __weak module_frob_arch_sections(Elf_Ehdr *hdr,
 	return 0;
 }
 
+/* module_blacklist is a comma-separated list of module names */
+static char *module_blacklist;
+static bool blacklisted(char *module_name)
+{
+	const char *p;
+	size_t len;
+
+	if (!module_blacklist)
+		return false;
+
+	for (p = module_blacklist; *p; p += len) {
+		len = strcspn(p, ",");
+		if (strlen(module_name) == len && !memcmp(module_name, p, len))
+			return true;
+		if (p[len] == ',')
+			len++;
+	}
+	return false;
+}
+core_param(module_blacklist, module_blacklist, charp, 0400);
+
 static struct module *layout_and_allocate(struct load_info *info, int flags)
 {
 	/* Module within temporary copy. */
@@ -3165,6 +3186,9 @@ static struct module *layout_and_allocate(struct load_info *info, int flags)
 	if (IS_ERR(mod))
 		return mod;
 
+	if (blacklisted(mod->name))
+		return ERR_PTR(-EPERM);
+
 	err = check_modinfo(mod, info, flags);
 	if (err)
 		return ERR_PTR(err);
-- 
1.7.9.3