FIRMWARE_PREALLOC_BUFFER is a "how", not a "what", and confuses the LSMs that are interested in filtering between types of things. The "how" should be an internal detail made uninteresting to the LSMs.
Fixes: a098ecd2fa7d ("firmware: support loading into a pre-allocated buffer") Fixes: fd90bc559bfb ("ima: based on policy verify firmware signatures (pre-allocated buffer)") Fixes: 4f0496d8ffa3 ("ima: based on policy warn about loading firmware (pre-allocated buffer)") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Scott Branden scott.branden@broadcom.com Signed-off-by: Kees Cook keescook@chromium.org --- To aid in backporting, this change is made before moving kernel_read_file() to separate header/source files. --- drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c | 5 ++--- fs/exec.c | 7 ++++--- include/linux/fs.h | 2 +- kernel/module.c | 2 +- security/integrity/digsig.c | 2 +- security/integrity/ima/ima_fs.c | 2 +- security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c | 6 ++---- 7 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c b/drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c index ca871b13524e..c2f57cedcd6f 100644 --- a/drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c +++ b/drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c @@ -465,14 +465,12 @@ fw_get_filesystem_firmware(struct device *device, struct fw_priv *fw_priv, int i, len; int rc = -ENOENT; char *path; - enum kernel_read_file_id id = READING_FIRMWARE; size_t msize = INT_MAX; void *buffer = NULL;
/* Already populated data member means we're loading into a buffer */ if (!decompress && fw_priv->data) { buffer = fw_priv->data; - id = READING_FIRMWARE_PREALLOC_BUFFER; msize = fw_priv->allocated_size; }
@@ -496,7 +494,8 @@ fw_get_filesystem_firmware(struct device *device, struct fw_priv *fw_priv,
/* load firmware files from the mount namespace of init */ rc = kernel_read_file_from_path_initns(path, &buffer, - &size, msize, id); + &size, msize, + READING_FIRMWARE); if (rc) { if (rc != -ENOENT) dev_warn(device, "loading %s failed with error %d\n", diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c index e6e8a9a70327..2bf549757ce7 100644 --- a/fs/exec.c +++ b/fs/exec.c @@ -927,6 +927,7 @@ int kernel_read_file(struct file *file, void **buf, loff_t *size, { loff_t i_size, pos; ssize_t bytes = 0; + void *allocated = NULL; int ret;
if (!S_ISREG(file_inode(file)->i_mode) || max_size < 0) @@ -950,8 +951,8 @@ int kernel_read_file(struct file *file, void **buf, loff_t *size, goto out; }
- if (id != READING_FIRMWARE_PREALLOC_BUFFER) - *buf = vmalloc(i_size); + if (!*buf) + *buf = allocated = vmalloc(i_size); if (!*buf) { ret = -ENOMEM; goto out; @@ -980,7 +981,7 @@ int kernel_read_file(struct file *file, void **buf, loff_t *size,
out_free: if (ret < 0) { - if (id != READING_FIRMWARE_PREALLOC_BUFFER) { + if (allocated) { vfree(*buf); *buf = NULL; } diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index 3f881a892ea7..95fc775ed937 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -2993,10 +2993,10 @@ 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*. */ #define __kernel_read_file_id(id) \ id(UNKNOWN, unknown) \ id(FIRMWARE, firmware) \ - id(FIRMWARE_PREALLOC_BUFFER, firmware) \ id(FIRMWARE_EFI_EMBEDDED, firmware) \ id(MODULE, kernel-module) \ id(KEXEC_IMAGE, kexec-image) \ diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c index 0c6573b98c36..26105148f4d2 100644 --- a/kernel/module.c +++ b/kernel/module.c @@ -3988,7 +3988,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(finit_module, int, fd, const char __user *, uargs, int, flags) { struct load_info info = { }; loff_t size; - void *hdr; + void *hdr = NULL; int err;
err = may_init_module(); diff --git a/security/integrity/digsig.c b/security/integrity/digsig.c index e9cbadade74b..ac02b7632353 100644 --- a/security/integrity/digsig.c +++ b/security/integrity/digsig.c @@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ int __init integrity_add_key(const unsigned int id, const void *data,
int __init integrity_load_x509(const unsigned int id, const char *path) { - void *data; + void *data = NULL; loff_t size; int rc; key_perm_t perm; diff --git a/security/integrity/ima/ima_fs.c b/security/integrity/ima/ima_fs.c index e3fcad871861..15a44c5022f7 100644 --- a/security/integrity/ima/ima_fs.c +++ b/security/integrity/ima/ima_fs.c @@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ static const struct file_operations ima_ascii_measurements_ops = {
static ssize_t ima_read_policy(char *path) { - void *data; + void *data = NULL; char *datap; loff_t size; int rc, pathlen = strlen(path); diff --git a/security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c b/security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c index c1583d98c5e5..f80ee4ce4669 100644 --- a/security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c +++ b/security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c @@ -611,19 +611,17 @@ void ima_post_path_mknod(struct dentry *dentry) int ima_read_file(struct file *file, enum kernel_read_file_id read_id) { /* - * READING_FIRMWARE_PREALLOC_BUFFER - * * Do devices using pre-allocated memory run the risk of the * firmware being accessible to the device prior to the completion * of IMA's signature verification any more than when using two - * buffers? + * buffers? It may be desirable to include the buffer address + * in this API and walk all the dma_map_single() mappings to check. */ return 0; }
const int read_idmap[READING_MAX_ID] = { [READING_FIRMWARE] = FIRMWARE_CHECK, - [READING_FIRMWARE_PREALLOC_BUFFER] = FIRMWARE_CHECK, [READING_MODULE] = MODULE_CHECK, [READING_KEXEC_IMAGE] = KEXEC_KERNEL_CHECK, [READING_KEXEC_INITRAMFS] = KEXEC_INITRAMFS_CHECK,
On Fri, 2020-07-24 at 14:36 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
FIRMWARE_PREALLOC_BUFFER is a "how", not a "what", and confuses the LSMs that are interested in filtering between types of things. The "how" should be an internal detail made uninteresting to the LSMs.
Fixes: a098ecd2fa7d ("firmware: support loading into a pre-allocated buffer") Fixes: fd90bc559bfb ("ima: based on policy verify firmware signatures (pre-allocated buffer)") Fixes: 4f0496d8ffa3 ("ima: based on policy warn about loading firmware (pre-allocated buffer)") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Scott Branden scott.branden@broadcom.com Signed-off-by: Kees Cook keescook@chromium.org
Thank you for updating the pre-allocated buffer comment.
Reviewed-by: Mimi Zohar zohar@linux.ibm.com
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v5.7.10: Build OK! v5.4.53: Failed to apply! Possible dependencies: 85db1cde8253 ("firmware: Rename FW_OPT_NOFALLBACK to FW_OPT_NOFALLBACK_SYSFS") 901cff7cb961 ("firmware_loader: load files from the mount namespace of init") e4c2c0ff00ec ("firmware: Add new platform fallback mechanism and firmware_request_platform()")
v4.19.134: Failed to apply! Possible dependencies: 5342e7093ff2 ("firmware: Factor out the paged buffer handling code") 82fd7a8142a1 ("firmware: Add support for loading compressed files") 8f58570b98c0 ("firmware: Unify the paged buffer release helper") 901cff7cb961 ("firmware_loader: load files from the mount namespace of init") 993f5d11a963 ("firmware: Use kvmalloc for page tables") ddaf29fd9bb6 ("firmware: Free temporary page table after vmapping") eac473bce4b7 ("firmware: hardcode the debug message for -ENOENT")
v4.14.189: Failed to apply! Possible dependencies: 02c399306826 ("firmware_loader: enhance Kconfig documentation over FW_LOADER") 06bfd3c8ab1d ("firmware_loader: move kconfig FW_LOADER entries to its own file") 367d09824193 ("firmware_loader: replace ---help--- with help") 7f55c733b660 ("firmware: Drop FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL Kconfig option") 82fd7a8142a1 ("firmware: Add support for loading compressed files")
v4.9.231: Failed to apply! Possible dependencies: 0015a978a254 ("s390: fix zfcpdump-config") 02c399306826 ("firmware_loader: enhance Kconfig documentation over FW_LOADER") 06bfd3c8ab1d ("firmware_loader: move kconfig FW_LOADER entries to its own file") 16ddcc34b8bd ("s390: update defconfig") 1d9995771fcb ("s390: update defconfigs") 6b0b7551428e ("perf/core: Rename CONFIG_[UK]PROBE_EVENT to CONFIG_[UK]PROBE_EVENTS") 7f55c733b660 ("firmware: Drop FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL Kconfig option") 80abb39b504e ("s390: update defconfig") 82fd7a8142a1 ("firmware: Add support for loading compressed files") a518d63777a4 ("ARC: [plat-hsdk] initial port for HSDK board") c7ff87409d1a ("m68k/defconfig: Update defconfigs for v4.10-rc1") dafba3f6fb86 ("ARM: tegra: Enable GMI driver in default configuration")
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