[PATCH V39] Lock down module params that specify hardware parameters (eg. ioport)

[Matthew Garrett]

From: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>

Provided an annotation for module parameters that specify hardware
parameters (such as io ports, iomem addresses, irqs, dma channels, fixed
dma buffers and other types).

Suggested-by: Alan Cox <gnomes at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu at kernel.org>
---
 include/linux/security.h     |  1 +
 kernel/params.c              | 21 ++++++++++++++++-----
 security/lockdown/lockdown.c |  1 +
 3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/security.h b/include/linux/security.h
index 8f7048395114..43fa3486522b 100644
--- a/include/linux/security.h
+++ b/include/linux/security.h
@@ -113,6 +113,7 @@ enum lockdown_reason {
 	LOCKDOWN_ACPI_TABLES,
 	LOCKDOWN_PCMCIA_CIS,
 	LOCKDOWN_TIOCSSERIAL,
+	LOCKDOWN_MODULE_PARAMETERS,
 	LOCKDOWN_INTEGRITY_MAX,
 	LOCKDOWN_CONFIDENTIALITY_MAX,
 };
diff --git a/kernel/params.c b/kernel/params.c
index cf448785d058..8e56f8b12d8f 100644
--- a/kernel/params.c
+++ b/kernel/params.c
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 #include <linux/err.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 #include <linux/ctype.h>
+#include <linux/security.h>
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SYSFS
 /* Protects all built-in parameters, modules use their own param_lock */
@@ -96,13 +97,19 @@ bool parameq(const char *a, const char *b)
 	return parameqn(a, b, strlen(a)+1);
 }
 
-static void param_check_unsafe(const struct kernel_param *kp)
+static bool param_check_unsafe(const struct kernel_param *kp)
 {
+	if (kp->flags & KERNEL_PARAM_FL_HWPARAM &&
+	    security_locked_down(LOCKDOWN_MODULE_PARAMETERS))
+		return false;
+
 	if (kp->flags & KERNEL_PARAM_FL_UNSAFE) {
 		pr_notice("Setting dangerous option %s - tainting kernel\n",
 			  kp->name);
 		add_taint(TAINT_USER, LOCKDEP_STILL_OK);
 	}
+
+	return true;
 }
 
 static int parse_one(char *param,
@@ -132,8 +139,10 @@ static int parse_one(char *param,
 			pr_debug("handling %s with %p\n", param,
 				params[i].ops->set);
 			kernel_param_lock(params[i].mod);
-			param_check_unsafe(&params[i]);
-			err = params[i].ops->set(val, &params[i]);
+			if (param_check_unsafe(&params[i]))
+				err = params[i].ops->set(val, &params[i]);
+			else
+				err = -EPERM;
 			kernel_param_unlock(params[i].mod);
 			return err;
 		}
@@ -553,8 +562,10 @@ static ssize_t param_attr_store(struct module_attribute *mattr,
 		return -EPERM;
 
 	kernel_param_lock(mk->mod);
-	param_check_unsafe(attribute->param);
-	err = attribute->param->ops->set(buf, attribute->param);
+	if (param_check_unsafe(attribute->param))
+		err = attribute->param->ops->set(buf, attribute->param);
+	else
+		err = -EPERM;
 	kernel_param_unlock(mk->mod);
 	if (!err)
 		return len;
diff --git a/security/lockdown/lockdown.c b/security/lockdown/lockdown.c
index 00a3a6438dd2..5177938cfa0d 100644
--- a/security/lockdown/lockdown.c
+++ b/security/lockdown/lockdown.c
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ static char *lockdown_reasons[LOCKDOWN_CONFIDENTIALITY_MAX+1] = {
 	[LOCKDOWN_ACPI_TABLES] = "modifying ACPI tables",
 	[LOCKDOWN_PCMCIA_CIS] = "direct PCMCIA CIS storage",
 	[LOCKDOWN_TIOCSSERIAL] = "reconfiguration of serial port IO",
+	[LOCKDOWN_MODULE_PARAMETERS] = "unsafe module parameters",
 	[LOCKDOWN_INTEGRITY_MAX] = "integrity",
 	[LOCKDOWN_CONFIDENTIALITY_MAX] = "confidentiality",
 };
-- 
2.23.0.rc1.153.gdeed80330f-goog