[PATCH 13/27] asus-wmi: Restrict debugfs interface when the kernel is locked down

joeyli jlee at suse.com
Fri Oct 20 06:44:31 UTC 2017


On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 03:52:11PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> From: Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett at nebula.com>
> 
> We have no way of validating what all of the Asus WMI methods do on a given
> machine - and there's a risk that some will allow hardware state to be
> manipulated in such a way that arbitrary code can be executed in the
> kernel, circumventing module loading restrictions.  Prevent that if the
> kernel is locked down.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett at nebula.com>
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>

I have reviewed this patch. Please feel free to add:

Reviewed-by: "Lee, Chun-Yi" <jlee at suse.com>

Thanks!
Joey Lee

> cc: acpi4asus-user at lists.sourceforge.net
> cc: platform-driver-x86 at vger.kernel.org
> ---
> 
>  drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c |    9 +++++++++
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c
> index 48e1541dc8d4..ef5587469337 100644
> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c
> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c
> @@ -1905,6 +1905,9 @@ static int show_dsts(struct seq_file *m, void *data)
>  	int err;
>  	u32 retval = -1;
>  
> +	if (kernel_is_locked_down("Asus WMI"))
> +		return -EPERM;
> +
>  	err = asus_wmi_get_devstate(asus, asus->debug.dev_id, &retval);
>  
>  	if (err < 0)
> @@ -1921,6 +1924,9 @@ static int show_devs(struct seq_file *m, void *data)
>  	int err;
>  	u32 retval = -1;
>  
> +	if (kernel_is_locked_down("Asus WMI"))
> +		return -EPERM;
> +
>  	err = asus_wmi_set_devstate(asus->debug.dev_id, asus->debug.ctrl_param,
>  				    &retval);
>  
> @@ -1945,6 +1951,9 @@ static int show_call(struct seq_file *m, void *data)
>  	union acpi_object *obj;
>  	acpi_status status;
>  
> +	if (kernel_is_locked_down("Asus WMI"))
> +		return -EPERM;
> +
>  	status = wmi_evaluate_method(ASUS_WMI_MGMT_GUID,
>  				     0, asus->debug.method_id,
>  				     &input, &output);
> 
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