This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

firmware: improve LSM/IMA security behaviour

to my driver-core git tree which can be found at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core.git in the driver-core-testing branch.

The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)

The patch will be merged to the driver-core-next branch sometime soon, after it passes testing, and the merge window is open.

If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.

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From: Sven Van Asbroeck thesven73@gmail.com Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 14:23:54 -0400 Subject: firmware: improve LSM/IMA security behaviour

The firmware loader queries if LSM/IMA permits it to load firmware via the sysfs fallback. Unfortunately, the code does the opposite: it expressly permits sysfs fw loading if security_kernel_load_data( LOADING_FIRMWARE) returns -EACCES. This happens because a zero-on-success return value is cast to a bool that's true on success.

Fix the return value handling so we get the correct behaviour.

Fixes: 6e852651f28e ("firmware: add call to LSM hook before firmware sysfs fallback") Cc: Stable stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Mimi Zohar zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: Kees Cook keescook@chromium.org To: Luis Chamberlain mcgrof@kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" rafael@kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sven Van Asbroeck TheSven73@gmail.com Reviewed-by: Mimi Zohar zohar@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/base/firmware_loader/fallback.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/base/firmware_loader/fallback.c b/drivers/base/firmware_loader/fallback.c index b5cd96fd0e77..29becea1910d 100644 --- a/drivers/base/firmware_loader/fallback.c +++ b/drivers/base/firmware_loader/fallback.c @@ -659,7 +659,7 @@ static bool fw_run_sysfs_fallback(enum fw_opt opt_flags) /* Also permit LSMs and IMA to fail firmware sysfs fallback */ ret = security_kernel_load_data(LOADING_FIRMWARE); if (ret < 0) - return ret; + return false;

return fw_force_sysfs_fallback(opt_flags); }